Quotes About Tantalus

#1. Tantalus made a wild grab, but the marshmallow committed suicide, diving into the flames.

Rick Riordan

#2. Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
[Lat., Accedit etiam mors, quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendit: tum superstitio, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. Weapons are allowed. Dirty tricks are expected. But try not to kill anybody!" Tantalus smiled at us like we were all naughty children. "Any killing will result in harsh punishment. No s'mores at the campfire for a week! Now ready your chariots!

Rick Riordan

#4. I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.

Rick Riordan

#5. The place was a funeral pyre for the young
who died before knowing the thirst of man
or woman. Furies with snakes in their hair
wept. Tantalus ate pears & sipped wine
in a dream, as the eyes of a vulture
poised over Tityus' liver.

Yusef Komunyakaa

#6. I want to be that Tantalus, unfed / forever, that my want's agony declare / that such as we want has nothing to say to the world; / if the world wants, it nothing wants for us. / Let me be unsatisfied.

William Bronk

#7. The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.

Tony Lema

#8. That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood.

Rick Riordan

#9. The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.

Thomas Adams

#10. Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.

Cees Nooteboom

#11. Tantalus expelled you for eternity", Clarisse told us smugly."Mr.D said if any of you show your face at camp again,he'll turn you into squirrels and run you over with his SUV.

Rick Riordan

#12. Biscuits are rough, potatoes are tough. I pray to God we all get enough.

Karen Cecil Smith

#13. Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

John Hockenberry

#14. In short - to overstate the point only slightly - because people don't really know why they do what they do, they give explanations of their own behavior that are about as reliable as anyone else's, and in many circumstances actually less so.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

#15. I want the key", he said. "The key to the universe. To life. To the future and the past. To love and hate. Truth. God. It's there. Inside of us. In the genome. The answer to every question. If I can find it. That's what I want," he finished, softly. "I want the key.

Jennifer Donnelly

#16. One cannot fail to notice the inconsistency of those rejecting human rights: their rejection takes place in the public square created by human rights. It is difficult to reject human rights without using them.

Filip Spagnoli

#17. Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

Edward Taylor

#19. It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

Marya Mannes

#20. I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Robert Frank

#21. My phone rings, and I groan in relief. "Oh thank Jesus. Hopefully whoever this is will save me before you break my dick." Turns out my savior is Beau, and I pick up with my usual, "What's shaking, Maxwell?

Elle Kennedy

#22. Well, let's see. Guardians spend all their time watching out for
others, risking their lives, and wearing bad shoes. Me? I have great
shoes, am currently massaging a pretty girl, and sleep in an awesome
bed."
I made a face. "Let's not talk about where you sleep, okay?

Richelle Mead

#23. I may not be able to re-record a song, but I can do a better job each time I sing it.

Patty Loveless

#24. Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation.

Dominic Stevenson

#25. Most people's Gods are self-reflective. God just has to be like you. You get concerned, so you assume God must get concerned. You get pissed off, so you assume God must get pissed off. You're attached to things that you create, so you assume that God would be.

Frederick Lenz

#26. I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts

Abbi Glines