Quotes About Ozymandias

#1. Twitter is like Ozymandias' wall of tv's in Watchmen. You don't read every tweet, but from the whole you can absorb the zeitgeist.

Mike Pohjola

#2. Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

William Shatner

#3. There is beauty that soothes like the warm kiss of the spring sun upon the cheek, and then there is beauty that terrifies, like the cry of Ozymandias, inviting despair.

Rick Yancey

#4. At least Ozymandias had a statue erected in his name. If I were to have died at that moment, the only thing I had managed to erect in my honor was a shrine to China's manufacturing capabilities.

Michael Gurnow

#5. My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#6. Beyond its romance, 'Titanic' offers an indelibly wrenching story of blind arrogance and its terrible consequences. It's the rare Hollywood adventure film that brings mythic images of tragedy - the fall of Icarus, the ruin of Ozymandias - so easily to mind.

Janet Maslin

#7. Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning
already gone
thus should one regard one's self.

Ikkyu

#8. The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!

Kellan Lutz

#10. I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Alan Moore

#11. Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers,
things standing shall fall,
but the moving ever shall stay.

Basava

#12. Tell me, have you ever had sex in the back of a Rolls Royce? -Kingsley

Tiffany Reisz

#13. Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.

Kobayashi Issa

#14. When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.

Jim George

#15. Writing is hard ... It gets harder when it becomes your career, your job, because it's no longer a hobby, it's no longer a manuscript hidden in your desk drawer. It becomes a platform from which the world can judge you. Your soul becomes target practice, and the critics hold the arrows.

Karina Halle

#16. Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.

Wayde Goodall

#17. The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#18. When we keep the spirit of Christmas, we keep the spirit of Christ, for the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit.

Thomas S. Monson

#19. He couldn't make me feel guilty for hiding. I wasn't his to find.

Laurelin Paige

#20. The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Park Chan-wook

#21. You will find a common dichotomy in life. Those who don't have vision or determination, and refuse to dream the impossible, are always in the majority.

Charles R. Swindoll

#22. Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Alan Moore

#23. I like Cleveland. I like the Cavaliers. Nothing wrong with Cleveland. I have lots of friends there.

Vanilla Ice