Quotes of: Greek Keyword

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

Tim Blake Nelson

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

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Curt Flood

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Ben Jonson

I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together.

George Papandreou

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

John Eaton

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'

John Henrik Clarke

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

The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.

Antonis Samaras

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

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

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.

Katy Mixon

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