Quotes of: Greek-people Keyword

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Brendan Coyle

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Ben Jonson

Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

John Eaton

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.

Evangelos Venizelos

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.

Martin Cruz Smith

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

Edward Bond

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Aleister Crowley

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

Mary Ritter Beard

I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong letter by mistake. But in the second line was a referen...

Flashman

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer r...

J.K. Rowling

Franky Four Fingers: So the Biblical scholars mis-translated the Hebrew word for "young woman" into the Greek word for "virgin," which was a pretty easy mistake to make, since there is only a subtle difference in the spelling. But back then it was th...

Snatch.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

Tom Wolfe

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

John Ruskin

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

Terry A O'Neal

I made 'Going Greek', which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.

Justin Zackham

You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Ruth Negga

It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

Martin Scorsese

The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.

Karen Duffy

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

Lianne La Havas

From that moment, I did not cease to pray to God that by his grace it might one day be permitted to me to learn Greek.

Heinrich Schliemann

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

Isaac Asimov