#hub

The first lesson every child of Athena learned: Mom was the best at everything, and you should never, ever suggest otherwise. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#athena #heroes-of-olympus #hubris #mother-knows-best #mothers-and-daughters

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#hubris #identity

Annabeth: Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What uf we COULD Do it all over again from scratch? No more war. Nobody homeless. No more summer reading homework. Percy: I'm listening. Annabeth: I mean, the West represents a lot of the best things mankind ever did--that's why the fire is still burning. That's why OlympusIs still around. But sometimes you just see the bad stuff, you know? And you start thinking the way Luke does: 'If I could tear this all down, i would do it better.'. Don't you ever feel that way? Like YOU could do a better job I'd you ran the world? Percy:Um...no. Me running the world would be kind of a nightmare. Annabeth: then you're lucky. Hubris isn't your fatal flaw. Percy: what is? Annabeth: I don't know, Percy, but every hero has one. If you don't find it and learn to control it...well, they don't call it 'fatal' for nothing. Percy(thinking to himself): I thought about that. It didn't exactly cheer me up. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#fatality #flaws #hubris #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#fiction #hub #keep #marry #partly

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment! ↗

— Garth Brooks

#chubby #entertainment #fun #funny #having

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

#american #american idol #because #cheeks #chubby

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#always #because #could #good #great

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#even #fields #find #hand #other

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#believed #brahms #ever #everything #need

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. ↗

— Mel Torme

#broadway #chicago #films #hollywood #hub