Accepted Quote by Mary Doria Russell

“It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Then overwhelmed by the sense of that unknown infinity, like one bewildered by a strange persecution, confronting the shadows of night, in the presence…

— Victor Hugo

“Thus ran his thoughts; he wanted to go to bed, but he felt loath to tear himself away from the book.”

— Leo Tolstoy

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Αἰσχύλον Εὐφορίωνος Ἀθηναῖον τόδε κεύθει μνῆμα καταφθίμενον πυροφόροιο Γέλας· ἀλκὴν δ' εὐδόκιμον Μαραθώνιον ἄλσος ἂν εἴποι καὶ βαθυχαιτήεις Μῆδος ἐπιστάμενο This gravestone covers Aeschylus,…

— Aeschylus

“I talk of love, a scholar's parrot may talk greek, but, self-imprisoned, always end where I begin.”

— phil keaggy

“Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that you could…

— George R.R. Martin

“There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and rage. All…

— Jennifer Donnelly

“He was like some tragic figure in Greek mythology whose offenses against the gods had caused them to design for him this exquisite torture:…

— Michael Lewis

“Until the blood from my pen runs dry, I shall worship the Greek body, the Greek mind, and the Greek soul. Until my tears…

— Pietros Maneos

“The book the man is reading is the Word of God, the Bible. It has become both the focus of and the reason for…

— John Bunyan

“...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few…

— Gene Edwards