Greek Quotes

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.

You see, my father was a Catholic priest, Greek Orthodox, but I think he started out as a Jew, then he became a Catholic priest.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

My first job was a Greek tragedy, and ever since, one job just seemed to roll onto the next. I've been terribly lucky.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

The verdict of the Greek people renders the troika a thing of the past for our common European framework.

Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers. It allows articulation to enter where silence once ruled.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

I thought that the chief thing to be done in order to equal boys was to be learned and courageous. So I decided to study Greek and learn to manage a horse.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.

The greek word for temptation means to test, to try, to prove.

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay.

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought.

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives, is to buy some Greek authors; after that, I shall buy clothes.

All you have to do is wear a hat, dark glasses and carry a Greek newspaper.

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.

Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things.

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

I think the Greek New Testament is the strongest and most successful misreading of a great prior text in the entire history of influence.

The suffix 'naut' comes from the Greek and Latin words for ships and sailing. Astronaut suggests 'a sailor in space.' Chimponaut suggests 'a chimpanzee in sailor pants'.