Handed Quote by Mindy Kaling

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which…

— John Gardner

“You are like Odysseus, who could go out onto the great sea, lose all his goods and his friends, come to the boundaries of…

— Gillian Bradshaw

Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

— John Maynard Keynes

“Socrates and Phaedrus, like Odysseus, must sail by the Sirens without being enchanted: instead of listening to their voices, they will outdo them with…

— Silvia Montiglio

“...much of poetry in the making is the fiddle with a few items. You lay a word against another and wait. You try another…

— Craig Raine

“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering…

— Ryan Holiday

I was really, really stagnating and getting bored in the steady work of television and didn't really know what movies I would be making…

— Alex Graves

“But when Odysseus rose, that man of many devices, fixing his down-cast eyes on the ground he stood: nor his scepter swayed, either this…

— Homer

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

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

“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

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