Greek Quotes

That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.

I consider Greeks the Jews of the sea.

By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Without Greek studies there is no education.

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it!

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.

I think the funds that have been pledged at Euro Summit combined with the outcome of the private sector involvement process should be sufficient in order to support financially the Greek economy.

The Greek word for box is kouti which also means stupid.

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which had to do with the citizenry, not the government.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

Not all Greeks are ready to do whatever is necessary to stay in the euro.

The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word.

You have to pay so much to see theater, even in Chicago. In the Greek theater, you didn't have to pay anything. You actually had to go, and you just sat there all day.

It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

A heroic nature is very Greek.

My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician.

Part of why I love Greek food so much is that it is simple, but it's unpretentious. It's authentic.

Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us.

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect.

Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through "reminiscence," that is by "remembering," by intuitively searching into our own experience.

While the Tamils were inventing cabs and leather jackets, we Greeks were busy inventing philosophy. But I guess everybody needs cabs and leather jackets.

I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.

Simple. Atlantis can't be found." He scoffed at her. " You're the second person to tell me that in less than an hour.

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.