Odysseus Quote by Mindy Kaling Download Open image “I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.” — Mindy Kaling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Odysseus
“During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of him but never felt nostalgia for him. Whereas Odysseus… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Odysseus is the statesman of the Iliad, the man in the middle, keeping what balance he can among the parties. He shows himself at… — Eva Brann Copy Share Image
“They no longer wanted to entice anyone; all they wanted was to catch a glimpse for as long as possible of the reflected glory… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“Odysseus is a migrant, but he is also a political and military leader, a strategist, a poet, a loving husband and father, an adulterer,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“And then there are the Odysseans. They form the middle ground between Dionysians and Apollonians. They tend to fluctuate between action and despair, between… — Donald Bain 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 Odyssey, and… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveller, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun...… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a long time,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“As it is, I guess I find “Jack & Diane” a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can’t help but notice… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“As it is, I guess I find "Jack and Diane" a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can't help but notice… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Even though Mavis was my secret friend, she is the only one I hope I see again. She’s the only one I wonder about.… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
But you, Achilles,/ There is not a man in the world more blest than you--/ There never has been, never will be one./ Time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
“What could you possibly write at Gates of Hades?” Cadmus asked. “Keep your spirits up.” Lycon sheathed the dagger he’d used to chisel the… — Sulari Gentill Copy Share Image
As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength of mind… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another. We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory… We are men only,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Odysseus...sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.” — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
“But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and… — Homer Copy Share Image
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of the sun...… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
