Odyssey Quotes

43 quotes by 37 authors

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me… — Kiefer Sutherland
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a… — Norman Mailer
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one… — Robert Fitzgerald
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the… — Jorge Luis Borges
It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness. — Karen Duffy
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old… — David Frawley
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. — Gabriel Fielding
Christopher Nolanâ€™s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness. — Joe Morgenstern
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters,… — Regina Spektor
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest. — Andrew Wiles
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent… — George Saintsbury
Lily whiteâ€™s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet. — Delano Johnson
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to… — Matthew Modine
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 that.' Space shuttles,… — David Weber
All confessions are Odysseys. — Raymond Queneau
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. — Raymond Queneau
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. — Raymond Queneau
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. — Raymond Queneau

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