Odyssey Quotes

What do you think you're doing?

— Ben Aaronovitch

All confessions are Odysseys.

— Raymond Queneau

For never, never, wicked man was wise.

— Homer

“Like a feather, I let you go. To where you belong.”

— Merlin Franco

“And so my Odyssey begins...”

— Vardan Partamyan

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

— Asher Roth

“The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.”

— Oscar Wilde

In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.

— Jami Attenberg

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

— Allen Ginsberg

Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him.

— Neal Adams

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

— Gabriel Fielding

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

— Raymond Queneau

Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

— Stephen Colbert

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his…

— Raymond Queneau

To me that is what the Odyssey is all about, it's about being in the world and unexpected challenges and dangers are…

— Bettany Hughes

Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.

— Joe Morgenstern

I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd…

— William Golding

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really…

— Kiefer Sutherland

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

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went…

— Gorgias

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related…

— Michael J. Massimino

The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or…

— Gloria Steinem

“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

“It is generally understood that a modern-day book may honorably be based upon an older one, especially since, as Dr. Johnson observed,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail,…

— Jean Houston

I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that…

— Bob Dylan

2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen…

— Robert Reed

At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus…

— Camille Paglia

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved…

— Norman Mailer

I heard about Bhagavad Gita very early in my childhood, from the age of five onwards. It was one of the earliest…

— Deepak Chopra

“Renunciation isn't a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It's simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass…

— Norman Fischer

“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

I think "Avatar" is kind of a unique category where people are enjoying the unique theatrical experience even though they may have…

— James Cameron

“Then we entered the Straits in great fear of mind, for on the one hand was Scylla, and on the other dread…

— Homer

I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church…

— Marty Stuart

“We did not get on much further, for in another moment we were caught by a terrific squall from the West that…

— Homer

It is amazing that 2001: A Space Odyssey has not aged at all, except for a few minor technical gadgets. The main…

— Jan Harlan

Writing a book is an emotional odyssey, sometimes exhilarating, other times deflating.

— Ryan O'Neal

I always thought it would be good to do a psychedelic movie like '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

— Gaspar Noe

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

— Raymond Queneau