I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
“ORESTES: Never shall I see you again. ELECTRA: Nor I see myself in your eyes. ORESTES: This, the last time I'll talk… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Greek tragedies and comedies are like a roadmap to all the ways in which trying to live this rich, full life… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe that the disenchantment of the modern universe is the direct result of a simplistic epistemology and moral posture spectacularly inadequate… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else’s story, though you will certainly be tempted to,… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
“Greek tragedy operates through the ear. It is through the ear primarily that it enters the eyes, the senses, the mind, the… — Paul Roche Copy Share Image
“Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“...I like to see things through the lens of Greek tragedy, which teaches us, among other things, that real tragedy is never… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Whenever I'd seen Greek tragedy done with masks and declamations, it brought me out in a rash. — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
“What cannot be borne in reality, becomes a source of pleasure when it is transposed into the visual and somatic fiction of… — Claude Calame Copy Share Image
“Well,the hell with you." She natched up her purse. "The hell with both of you." "We love you, Margo." That stopped her.She… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
“When it's good, it's the best and most beautiful thing I've ever experienced. So good, that it makes me feel bad for… — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
In 'Guru,' the business aspect is more of a layer and sub-text... to me, Harshad Mehta's story is a tragedy, a classic… — Vijay Krishna Acharya Copy Share Image
“Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much:… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
