Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating. — Ryan O'Neal Copy Share Image
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet. — Delano Johnson Copy Share Image
“Become the teachings. ' Odyssey of the 8th Fire < 8thfire. net >” — Steven McFadden Copy Share Image
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism… — Robert Dessaix Copy Share Image
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people. — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I didn't like the person I was growing up to become. I needed to find myself and my identity. And for me,… — Jonny Kim Copy Share Image
I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done… — David Weber Copy Share Image
After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I… — Evan Daugherty Copy Share Image
“In Book VIII of the Odyssey we read that the gods weave misfortunes into the pattern of events to make a song… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I reread the Odyssey at that time, which I had first read in school and remembered as a story of a homecoming.But… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“The revelation that I’m destined to meet many virgins from the East and the promise of limitless love they hold in their… — Merlin Franco Copy Share Image
As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago… — Michael Mann Copy Share Image
I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
I find that readers are very interested in how things are translated. I just turned in the first part of this father-son… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main… — Jan Harlan Copy Share Image
“You’ll never be fainthearted or a fool, Telémakhos, if you have your father’s spirit; he finished what he cared to say, and… — Fitzgerald translation Homer Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference. — Tom Bodett Copy Share Image
Most of my acting has been for fantasy-based shows like 'A Korean Odyssey.' But for 'Vagabond,' it is totally different. — Lee Seung-gi Copy Share Image
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
![“In a time of disorder [Laertes] has returned to the care of the earth, the foundation of life and hope. And Odysseus finds him in an act emblematic of the best and most responsible kind of agriculture: an old man caring for a young tree.” quote by Wendell Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c0/wendell-berry-236_agriculture_in-a-time-of-disorder-laertes-has-return_2472920.jpg)
