Rhapsode Quotes & Sayings

Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children. — Nonie Darwish

We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

SOCRATES: But you do say that he who is a good rhapsode is also a good general. ION: Certainly. — Plato

Tired of the sea,
I need a tree that will hold my thoughts with birdsong;
not tides returning them along the shoreline to laughing gulls. — Basith

Human beings are not made to take shortcuts, ... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived. — David Rotenberg

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know! — George H. W. Bush

I love language, words, and all the lovely, exciting, and heart wrenching things you can do with them. Pick the right ones, put them in the right order, and you've created a moment in time where the reader forgets about the late car payment, the dirty dishes, the impending workweek. You have created a state of bliss. Or negligence, depending on your perspective. — Darynda Jones

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained? — John Adams

Do you know that the spectator is the last of the rings which, as I am saying, receive the power of the original magnet from one another? The rhapsode like yourself and the actor are intermediate links, and the poet himself is the first of them. Through all these the God sways the souls of men in any direction which he pleases, and makes one man hang down from another. Thus there is a vast chain of dancers and masters and undermasters of choruses, who are suspended, as if from the stone, at the side of the rings which hang down from the Muse. And every poet has some Muse from whom he is suspended, and by whom he is said to be possessed, which is nearly the
Ion 5
same thing; for he is taken hold of. — Socrates

Begging for More Kim Karr It was an instant attraction ... never intended to be more than a quick lay. — Alessandra Torre

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers. — Bjarne Stroustrup

You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer. — Jill Paton Walsh

I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from. — Coco Lee

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore. — Dennis Quaid

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room. — Gwenn Wright