I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We… — Brewster Kahle Copy Share Image
The reason the Greeks don't pay taxes is they don't trust where their taxes are going, because they know these other Greeks… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Crimea has always been and remains Russian, as well as Ukrainian, Crimean-Tatar, Greek (after all, there are Greeks living there) and German… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of… — Jean Shinoda Bolen Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger Copy Share Image
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male,… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The Greek debt issue, for example, is such a threat because if that country ever defaulted, it might cause some bank that's… — Jerry A. Webman Copy Share Image