Ozymandias Quotes

• My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Civilization, Names

  "Ozymandias" l. 9 (1819)

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• Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Republic, Outcomes

  "Watchmen". Сomic book limited series by Alan Moore, 1986–1987.

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• I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

  Alan Moore

  Villain, Thirty, Minutes

  "Watchmen". Comic book miniseries by Alan Moore, 1986–1987.

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• Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

  William Shatner

  Success, Thinking, Careers

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• And on the pedestal these words appear:
 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
 Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Names, Despair

  "Ozymandias" l. 9 (1819)

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• Twitter is like Ozymandias' wall of tv's in Watchmen. You don't read every tweet, but from the whole you can absorb the zeitgeist.

  Mike Pohjola

  Wall, Tvs, Zeitgeist

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