Avernus Greek Quotes & Sayings

You just never know when you're living in a golden age. — Alexander Payne

From space the little world looked like nothing much - perhaps a pitted and decaying pumpkin, dull orange-black in color, with a handful of tiny orbiting craft floating around it like fruit flies. Here and there amber lights shone out of craters in the surface. What seemed to be scores of deformed silver minnows nibbling the pumpkin rind - together with numbers of smaller noshmates - were actually huge transactinide carriers and lesser starships, either taking on fuel or docked nose-to-ground while their crews rested and recreated inside the not so heavenly body.

I have been told that the original Phlegethon of Greek mythology was a fiery river in Hades. Sheltok Concern owned a dozen or so similar way stations with brimstony names - Gehenna, Styx, Sheol, Tophet, Avernus, Niflheim, and the like - that served vessels bound to or fro the terrible R-class worlds where ultraheavy elements are mined. — Julian May

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I suggest you icksnay on the artalecsmay. — Nicki Elson

Like all guests, after a fortnight, grief is best beyond the door. — Sandra Cisneros

If greater openness is a key to economic success, I believe there is increasingly a need for openness in the political sphere as well. — Paul Wolfowitz

For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research. — Andrew Sean Greer

If you weren't an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster

The wolves wait for you, little lamb. — Keri Lake

The hippie chick giggled the same little giggle of any lady who receives a sweet little spoonful of a woman's favorite drug; flattery.

Jesse from Stilettos and Steel — Jeri Estes

In 1897, a Scientific American reporter wrote that mezcal is described as tasting like a mixture of gasoline, gin and electricity. Tequila is even worse, and is said to incite murder, riot and revolution. — Amy Stewart

No matter how long is a rainy day, it cannot beat the sun forever. — Alok Jagawat

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage. — John C. Maxwell

We don't need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling. — Banksy

While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a family and lead to addiction later in life. Because, how would you know when to stop? How could you stop? An entire city could be built with a Habitrail. — Augusten Burroughs

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. — Dean Koontz

Rachel felt the grief grow so wide and deep it felt like a dark fathomless pool she'd never emerge from. Because there was nothing left to do now, nothing except endure it. — Ron Rash