As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
'Greek' is basically a show about sororities and fraternities. It follows Casey Cartwright, played by me, her younger brother, and all the… — Spencer Grammer Copy Share Image
In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It… — Joseph Stowell Copy Share Image
"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George. — George Michael Copy Share Image
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
I put one questions. For whom I compose? My answer is I wanted to address to all my people. And if I… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the beauties of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful… — Sarah Monette Copy Share Image
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Paul indeed wanted to reveal the unknown God to the philosophers and then affirms of Him, that no human intellect can conceive… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it… — Robert Beverly Hale Copy Share Image
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost. — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
He beat back the Greeks and reclaimed Rome for our people. Indeed, he was the one who destroyed the Macedonian threat and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
