Quotes Tagged With :icarus

Some upstarts always try to get closer to the source of creation by ascending to the source's level.....

Icarus should have waited for nightfall,the moon would have never let him go.

But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?....

The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and....

don't fly too close to the sun," Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me.....

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land....

I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare....

Do I, then, belong to the heavens?Why, if not so, should the heavensFix me thus with their ceaseless....

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that....