The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet. — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
“Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
“Become the teachings. ' Odyssey of the 8th Fire < 8thfire. net >” — Steven McFadden Copy Share Image
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
“For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he… — Homer Copy Share Image
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related… — Michael J. Massimino Copy Share Image
The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may… — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
“In this way, the Odyssey’s hero embodies one of its central themes, which is that the capacity to defer satisfaction and endure… — Homer Copy Share Image
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“I reread the Odyssey at that time, which I had first read in school and remembered as a story of a homecoming.But… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail,… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I view the major features of my own odyssey as a set of mostly fortunate contingencies. I was not destined by inherited… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main… — Jan Harlan Copy Share Image
“Throughout our emotional odyssey in the unembellished narrative of our life, we may sense many alluring voices that are enticing us into… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
To me that is what the Odyssey is all about, it's about being in the world and unexpected challenges and dangers are… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness. — Joe Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people. — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
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