Quotes of: Ancient-greeks Keyword

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Brendan Fraser

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.

Gabriel Mann

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

Gilbert Murray

Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs.

George Papandreou

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.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Nick the Greek: Is that you, Dean? Dean: No, it's Lord fucking Lucan. Who do you think it is?

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Nick: Who did the painting? George: Some Greek with a moustache that Martha attacked one night.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek ...

Clark Gregg

When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

Alice Oswald

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

John Eaton

Manouri is a Greek ewes' milk cheese that's light in colour and texture. It's fresh and milky, and goes well with other subtle flavours.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Immanuel Kant

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

Morarji Desai

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

Edward Dahlberg

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.

Thomas Day

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Alan Rickman

I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.

Andy Serkis

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.

Harry Seidler

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

Cate Blanchett

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

Kit Williams

Why had Ovid lived in Ancient Rome in 20 BCE23 and not Chicago in 2006 CE? Would Ovid still have been Ovid if he had lived in America? No, he wouldn’t have been, because he would have been a Native American or possibly an American Indian or a First...

An Abundance of Katherines