I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories.… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The closer we come to the Greek tragedy that is Brexit, the more horrifying it is to behold. — Gina Miller Copy Share Image
The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that,… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became… — Walter Matthau Copy Share Image
Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a… — Chet Baker Copy Share Image
They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The… — E. Cobham Brewer Copy Share Image
Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the… — Emil Nolde Copy Share Image
In all the good Greek of Plato I lack my roastbeef and potato. A better man was Aristotle, Pulling steady on the… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
My wife, my Mary, goes to her sleep the way you would close the door of a closet. So many times I… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I eat a lot of Greek yogurt with honey, a lot of lean protein, vegetables. — Nina Agdal Copy Share Image
[Greek] Theater started off and used masks and Kabuki, in the East, they used mask-work. And then, Commedia dell'arte in Italy and… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
“I remembered Daemon's feather soft kisses on my cheek, and I remembered the clouds parting and the sun shining on a cold… — Rebecca Boucher Copy Share Image
Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a… — Jok Church Copy Share Image