Odyssey Quotes
43 quotes by 37 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.
— Karen Duffy
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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
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Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
— Gabriel Fielding
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Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.
— Joe Morgenstern
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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
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
— Raymond Queneau
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That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
— Andrew Wiles
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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
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Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.
— Delano Johnson
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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
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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
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All confessions are Odysseys.
— Raymond Queneau
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It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
— Raymond Queneau
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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
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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
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Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
— Raymond Queneau
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