Venus Quotes

Venus favors the bold.

Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

"Aphrodite," she said. "Venus?" Hazel asked in amazement. "Mom," Piper said, with no enthusiasm.

Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.

The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that splurge out of which has come the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa, the Fantasie Impromptu, the Bayeux tapestries, Romeo and Juliet, the windows of Chartres Cathedral, Paradise Lost - and a pulp murder story by Dan Moody. The process is the same in all; if the results are a little uneven, that doesn't invalidate the basic similarity of origin.