mythological reference Quotes

Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.

Poseidon can come in too! We will eat you both! Seafood!

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

All women should become Hercules!

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

The moon rose, an opalescent goddess tipping light from her harsh maternal scimitar.

O latest born and loveliest vision far of all Olympus' faded hierarchy.

Oh God," I said. "I'm Zmey's daughter. Zmey junior. Zmeyette, even.

I bet his mother was a wyvern. -Scamp

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.

I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an external life beyond our fate,And be the new Prometheus of new men,Bestowing fire from Heaven, and then, too late,Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain

If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the currents of the Duat.

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

'Prometheus' was a great experience for me.

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.

I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.

I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed Titan Krios with my own hand. And now I'm going to destroy you Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves." "Wow, dude," Leo muttered, "You been eating red meat?

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!