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.
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.
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.
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.
My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.
It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.
How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy?
Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based.
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
I create little challenges for myself, like, 'Okay, whatever you do in this song, you've got to somehow work in Greek Cypriots,' or something like that.
When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Lord, she really hoped that was his penis and that Greek gods didn’t pad their briefs.
Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.
Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
