As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may… — Homer Copy Share Image
“They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“The revelation that I’m destined to meet many virgins from the East and the promise of limitless love they hold in their… — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
My review of 2001, the year, is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It went on too long,… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12… — Conan Stevens Copy Share Image
When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
“In The Odyssey, we find instead the story of a man whose grand adventure is simply to go back to his own… — Homer Copy Share Image
“down the dank mouldering paths and past the Ocean's streams they went and past the White Rock and the Sun's Western Gates… — Homer Copy Share Image
“...we have a right to narrow down our universe ever further and further; until like the world of the Iliad and the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“You’ll never be fainthearted or a fool, Telémakhos, if you have your father’s spirit; he finished what he cared to say, and… — Fitzgerald translation Homer Copy Share Image
It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness. — Karen Duffy Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
Most of my acting has been for fantasy-based shows like 'A Korean Odyssey.' But for 'Vagabond,' it is totally different. — Lee Seung-gi Copy Share Image
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in “2001: A Space Odyssey,'' but in how little. This is the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was… — Dule Hill Copy Share Image
[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
![“[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my…” quote by Gene Wilder](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cc5/gene-wilder-3914_baby_gilda-radner-was-in-the-in-vitro-fertili_815051.png)
![“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree.” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c0/wendell-berry-236_agriculture_in-a-time-of-disorder-laertes-has-return_2472920.jpg)
