“Look, ladies, we've been over this. I don't even remember killing Medusa. I don't remember anything! Can't we just call a truce and talk about your weekly specials?" Stheno gave her sister a pouty look, which was hard to do with giant bronze tusks. "Can we?” LooksHardRememberKillingGiantsBronzeTruceMedusa Author:Rick Riordan
“Heroes!" Euryale said with disgust. "They always bring that up, just like our mother! 'why can't you turn people to stone? your sister can turn people to stone.' Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you, boy! That was Medusa's curse alone. she was the most hideous one in the family. She got all the luck!" Stheno looked hurt. "Mother said I was the most hideous.” PeopleWellsSaidMotherTurnsHurtBoysHeroStonesLuckSorryCurseDisgustingI'm SorryDisappointHideousMedusa Author:Rick Riordan
“Let me explain: there are dragons, and then there are drakons. Drakons are several millennia older than dragons, andmuch larger. They look like giant serpents. Most don't have wings. Most don't breathe fire (though some do). All are poisonous. All are immensely strong, with scales harder than titanium. Their eyes can paralyze you; not the turn-you~to-stone Medusa-type paralysis, buttheoh~my~gods-that~big~snake~is~going~to~eat~me type of paralysis, which is just as bad.” LooksEyeTurnsStrongFireTypeStonesLet MeHarderWingsBreatheScalesGiantsDragonsSerpentPoisonousParalysisMedusa Book:Percy Jackson: The Complete Series Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series
“Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.” FeelsLooksLittlesSaidEyeFacesSongWaterKnownWonderEnvironmentMysterySeaDrinkQuietRiversStonesUltimateLook UpLimbsFloatsFace To FaceLegendaryCanyonsMedusaWonder And Mystery Book:The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader
“Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.” MenForeverMedusa Author:Archibald MacLeish
“You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, that my eyes have the cruel cunning of Borgia, that my mouth is the mouth of the sinister scheming Delilah, that my hands are like the talons of a Circe or the blood-bathing Elizabeth Bathory. And then you ask me of my soul—you wish to know if it is reflected in my face.” IfsKnowsSoulHandsEyeFacesAsksWishBloodHairMouthsMy SoulAsk MeWickedLocksCunningSerpentSinisterBathingTalonsMedusa Author:Theda Bara
“Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.” IfsLooksMightLeftPowerDignityMajorityBritishLook UpStatus QuoAdaptingDefyingMedusa Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.” TryingKindStepsSceneInstinctFingersSinkingMedusaNewcomers Author:John Updike
“Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.” TechnologyHatsYieldRabbitsMedusaApplied Science Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956 Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956