I like both Greek and Egyptian. More Greek stories have survived, so we know more about them. They've always been my favorite.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
The Dance of the Future will have to become again a high religious art as it was with the Greeks. For art… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
In my head I actually think my songs are pop songs. I think, Damn, that's a pop song! I can practice in… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Plays are just all sort of playful asides, and there's a great deal of reference here to Greek mythology, plays, and dramas.… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“As you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that your journey be a long one, filled with adventure, filled with… — Barry B. Powell Copy Share Image
I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too,… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
