Sirens Quotes

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the brown stuff they spread on veggie sandwiches? Annabeth:No, Seaweed Brain. That's HUMMUS. hubris is worse. Percy: what could be worse than hummus? Annabeth: Hubris means deadly pride, Percy. Thinking you can do things better than anyone else... Even the gods.

One morning every spring, for exactly two minutes, Israel comes to a stop. Pedestrians stand in place, drivers pull over to the side of the road, and nobody speaks, sings, eats, or drinks as the nation pays respect to the victims of the Nazi genocide. From the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, the only sounds one hears are sirens.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

We were in this park in Canada throwing a frisbee around, and there was a homeless guy there who swore to God I was Mick Jagger. I kept telling him I wasn't, and he kept thinking I was Jagger and wanted to play frisbee with us. Then he heard a siren coming and thought I called the cops - and he ran away!

Most Americans can't begin to understand what day-to-day life is like for millions of Israeli citizens. We can't relate to hearing sirens go off - notifying us that we have 15 seconds to a minute to seek shelter from a potential rocket attack.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

When I do my vocal warm-ups everyone calls me the dolphin because I do stupid siren noises.

That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.

I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.

Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself.

you're like a siren, leading me into dangerous places

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

History is the siren song of the soul.

L.A. is such a big city, and there's so much going on. I mean, you know you're in L.A. when you can just hear sirens all the time.