Olympus quotes

As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

#Winter #Pyramids #Olympus
But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do.
-- Claudia Gray

#Olympus #Ruling #Universe
To pile Pelion upon Olympus. [Lat., Pelion imposuisse Olympo.]
-- Horace

#Olympus
One of the reasons people find me a believable actor is that I don't seem like one of the gods from Olympus. I seem like someone who was lucky enough to be let into Olympus.
-- John C. Reilly

#People #Lucky #Olympus
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
-- William Winwood Reade

#God #Olympus #Nineteenth Century
Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.
-- Alexander Chee

#Greek #Abuse #Olympus
The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.
-- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

#Numbers #Olympus #Reign

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds
Past and future monopolize the poetâ€™s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are ***** and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.
If you don't believe in what you're selling, neither will your prospect.
Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization.
The antidote to climate change is community.
We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.