Pegasus Quotes

• They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

  John Keats

  Horse, Poetry, Rocking Horses

  'Sleep and Poetry' (1817) l. 186

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• ...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Angel, Clouds

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 4, sc. 1, l. 104

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• Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

  Robin McKinley

  Princess

  Robin Mckinley (2010). “Pegasus”, p.8, Penguin

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• I just loved the feeling of flying. I could jump six feet bareback and it was the closest thing to being Pegasus and flying next to God. It's the most liberating freedom-making feeling in the world.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Feet, Feelings, Flying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you want to make a mythical creature, just take a regular animal and add wings to it. A horse becomes a pegasus, a lion becomes a griffin, and a hawk... becomes a double hawk.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Horse, Humor

  TV Series "Comedy Central Presents" ("Demetri Martin", 2004), www.imdb.com. (1998–).

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• Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Block, Crazy

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• Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus.

  Jean Rook

  Horse, Legs, Four

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• The end of the world started when a pegasus landed on the hood of my car

  Rick Riordan

  Car, World, Ends

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• I'm a serious geek. I mean I seriously want to own a unicorn when I'm older . . . or a Pegasus . . . yeah Pegasus sounds better.

  Henry Cavill

  Mean, Sound, Want

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• Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.

  Michael Buckley

  Years, Age, Acting

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.187, Abrams

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• Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

  Michio Kaku

  Horse, Moving, Thinking

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• While Coach Hedge was having dinner on the foredeck, a wild pegasus appeared from nowhere,stampeded over the coach’s enchiladas, and flew off again, leaving cheesy hoof prints all across the deck. “What was that for?” the coach demanded.

  Rick Riordan

  Leaving, Cheesy, Dinner

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• I started a nonprofit called The Pegasus Fund, and we take top-performing students from underserved communities, and we commit to sending them for three summers to a nonacademic, holistic summer camp as a means to help them acclimate socially, geographically, spiritually to pilot secondary schools that they hope to attend.

  Jonathan Tucker

  Summer, School, Mean

  "Star of Parenthood and Kingdom Jonathan Tucker: Giving Back". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

  Graham Parker

  Song, Morning, Writing

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• I've read all the books, I've watched all the films and now, thanks to the glory of home gaming, I've even kind of experienced it: I've landed on the beaches of Normandy, I have successfully held Pegasus Bridge and I've disabled German tanks with stolen Panzerfausts. I have fought in Italy, France and North Africa and if I had a Euro for every virtual life I've lost I'd be able to build a replica of Hitler's bunker in my back garden.

  Tom Dunne

  Beach, Book, Home

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