The Odyssey Telemachus Quotes

#1. At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.?

Camille Paglia

#2. All a poet can do today is warn.

Wilfred Owen

#3. None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.

Hilary Liftin

#4. They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many.

Jane Austen

#5. Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.

Ali Al-Naimi

#7. Everyone on the Internet is sad. Why else would they be on the Internet?

Frankie Cosmos

#8. The devil had attacked me at my weakest point: my inability to realise the limitations of my sex.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

Laura Riding

#10. I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

Adela Florence Nicolson

#11. The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

Sophie Swetchine

#12. Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

Gerry Mulligan

#13. When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.

Aaron Zigman