Quotes About Orphic

#1. It mattered little to anyone outside the Transcendental coterie that Bronson Alcott had finally written something publishable - his "Orphic Sayings" - for the opening issue; or that an unemployed schoolteacher named Henry David Thoreau had his first piece published in its pages.

Megan Marshall

#2. The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

Allen Grossman

#3. I love you, rotten,
Delicious rottenness.
... wonderful are the hellish experiences,
Orphic, delicate
Dionysos of the Underworld.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. With reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly declared that there were no gods at all.

Athenagoras Of Athens

#5. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Van Wyck Brooks

#6. Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.

Ian McEwan

#7. Live your life without any regrets.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.

Vladimir Potanin

#9. And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

Jenna Elfman

#10. The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

Malcolm Gladwell

#11. You're not a realist unless you believe in miracles.

Anwar Sadat

#12. So that there is enough to keep life together, it matters little what it is.

G.A. Henty

#13. People need to start becoming more aware of what's going on and doing something to fix it.

Spencer Smith

#14. For me the game of love is much like hunting a man on foot with a knife. It's not over until the blade is clean.

Vladimir Putin