Semele Quotes

#1. Madame Semele seemed torn between her desire to threaten and to cajole, and the emotions chased each other so nakedly across her face that she seemed almost to vibrate with the effort of keeping them in check.

Neil Gaiman

#2. The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed.

Madame Necker

#3. With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

Jason Dolley

#4. Because I am your favourite grandson, and you love me more than all of my brothers."
"Nyet. You are the most frustrating of my grandsons. Find a good woman, marry her, have children - then you will be my favourite."
"Perhaps I shall settle for second favourite. What would that take?

Karen Hawkins

#5. Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)

William Shakespeare

#6. Charleston, West "by gods" Virginia

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

Sigmund Freud

#8. Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.

Taylor Mali

#9. So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

Jane Hirshfield

#10. Don't worry. These cowboys are all in line. Nice, law-abiding batch here, only want to help you reach your dreams. They're nothing like that last group who rolled through town with branding irons and rape-trusses and shotguns. These are the good guys.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#11. By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

Nate Silver

#12. The best things in life are usually difficult.

Dirk Benedict

#13. I think what I tend to do is look at all the very ordinary things that are around the house and imagine bringing them to life.

Mini Grey