English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Edith Hamilton Quotes

...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

Edith Hamilton

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor. Max von Laue
K. D. Lang quote: "I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We..."
I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal. K. D. Lang
No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it. Frank Stella
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Art-speech is the only truth."
Art-speech is the only truth. David Herbert Lawrence
I don't play the traditional Charlie Parker songs. But I do improvise and I do create with my instrument, and that to me is jazz. But there are people who use the word 'jazz' only in a traditional sense, and they would be offended by that, and that's fine. Kenny G
The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten. Meriwether Lewis
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing quote: "The aspiration to truth is more precious than its assured..."
The aspiration to truth is more precious than its assured possession. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Vanna White quote: "I think people think of me as this elegant person because they..."
I think people think of me as this elegant person because they always see me dressed up. Vanna White
Stephen Covey quote: "Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic"
Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic Stephen Covey
Suzanne Collins quote: "Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death...."
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begu? Suzanne Collins
And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters. J. R. R. Tolkien
I'm not altogether sure what I'm going to do for that. I think it will be a lot more low key than the other two I've done. Dare I say it, a bit more relaxing. Peter Banks
Bill Ayers quote: "Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a..."
Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. Bill Ayers
Tori Spelling quote: "I'm all for same-sex marriage."
I'm all for same-sex marriage. Tori Spelling
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot... Milan Kundera