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“I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.”

Ifs Thinking Way Humans Kind Play Certain Sports Emotion Comedy Tragedy Structure Depth Greek Height Human Emotions Greek Tragedy Good Sports Sports Movie

Author:Carla Gugino

“You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.”

People Real Problem Deals Subjects Fool Ancient Greek Existential Technological Real Problems Screwed Up Ancient Greek

Author:Woody Allen

“I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we know very little about. I wanted to use them in a story and bring them back into the public's consciousness. Similarly with mythology: everyone knows some of the Greek or Roman legends, and maybe some of the Egyptian or Norse stories too, but what about the other great mythologies: the Celtic, Chinese, Native American?”

People Knows Littles Stories Use Wanted Consciousness Edges I Realized Mythology Chinese Greek Native Legends Native American Egyptian Celtic Norse

Author:Michael Scott

“I did have the resource of having taught Greek mythology and the history of Western civilization, and you can go back into the plays of Aeschylus and follow what happens when people seek revenge, and there are people plucking their eyes out. And Greek mythology is filled with all kinds of monsters and whatnot.”

People Kind Play Happens Eye Taught Civilization Resources Filled Western Revenge Mythology Monsters All Kinds Greek Greek Mythology Western Civilization Greek Myth

Author:Wes Craven

“If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.”

Ifs Men Looks Can Do Situation Example He Man Revolution Creating Slavery Slave Seeds Greek

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]”

Littles Greek Chickens

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.”

Ifs Men Writing Believe Ends Problem Mercy Tragedy Solve Inevitable Greek If You Believe Melodrama

Author:Lillian Hellman

“The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.”

Knows Wells Philosophy Light Evil Dark Teach Forgiving Combination Greek Good And Evil Savior Murderer Hmm Greek Philosophy

Author:Ray Bradbury

“My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.”

People Way Wells Reality Law Mother Father Left Community Known Vision Groups Poet Clothes Artistic Alternatives Greek Well Known Hippie In-laws Weaving Artistic Vision Father In Law

Author:Anne Waldman

“I had parents who were attentive to what was going on politically. There was the Greek connection, a sense of a larger world. People coming in from abroad. There was a sense of community around ideas: a discourse and an adhesiveness which is my favorite word from [Walt] Whitman.”

People World Ideas Parent Community Connections My Favorite Greek Discourse Walt Favorite Words

Author:Anne Waldman

“For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that my versions are explorations.”

Form Levels Shapes Originals Proof Versions Greek Engaged Latin Exploration Endorsements

Author:Michael Longley

“I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes my names have meanings such as 'strong', 'fire', and Phoenix which means dark red and is Greek. It's fun to think of a name meaning and matching it with a name. Even Frances means Victory.”

Thinking Mean Sometimes Use Names Strong Fun Dark Fire Baby Internet Victory Unique Red France Greek Site Phoenix Matching

Author:Franny Armstrong

“I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.”

Thinking Philosophy Sports Greek Antidote

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.”

Men Art Care Beautiful Moving Don't Care I Don't Care Greek Handsome Beautiful Women Prehistoric Handsome Men Greek Art

Author:Pierre Soulages

“Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).”

Ideas Science Term Equal Property Substance Greek Composition Definite Selected Nomenclature

Author:Jons Jacob Berzelius

“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.”

House Streets Findings Greek Restaurants Soup Avenues Inviting Dine Dine In

Author:Maxwell Bodenheim

“When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."”

“...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.”

Ifs States Law Political Politics Lost Cities Constitution Fundamentals Greek Necks Proposal Revision Nooses

Author:Aristotle

“There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.”

Has Beens Government Running Language Force Common Hell Police Definitions Pops Defense Singers Cooks Comedian Greek Sarcastic Dutch Waiter Railway Swedish Frenchmen Common Language Belgians

Author:David Frost

“Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism, which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents, wave succeeding wave in the Catholic church, from the Council of Nicea, and long before, to this day.”

Long Christian Religion Church Atheism Succeed Miracle Catholic Ancient Wave Greek This Day Council Catholic Church Hebrew Atheistic Factions

Book:Ye Will Say I Am No Christian

Source: Ye Will Say I Am No Christian

“I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.”

Giving Fear Philosophical Greek Classic Trojan Horse

Author:Virgil

“The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.”

Language Perfect Wonderful India Structure Greek Latin Hinduism Refined Antiquity Sanskrit

Author:William Jones

“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.”

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Author:Virgil

“Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes”

Fear Trust Horse Greek Don't Trust Trojans Trojan Horse

Author:Virgil

“Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.”

Sometimes Tragedy Luck Faults Ancient Planes Greek Crash Bad Luck Ancient Greek Greek Tragedy Plane Crashes

Author:Werner Herzog

“Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?”

People Ifs World Believe Different Heard Red Ancient Greek Fairy Different Peoples Ancient Greek

Book:The Yellow Fairy Book

Source: The Yellow Fairy Book

“Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.”

Believe Psychology Myth Greek Application Woe Vulgar Greek Myth Private Parts Abnormal Psychology Old Greek

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other's skin as a hat within the year.”

Years Two Half Married Skins Greek Hats Italian Pool Nurse

Author:Warren Ellis

“The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.”

Body Form Enjoy Food Greek Marvelous Filling Tubes Cooperatives Squids

Author:Jeff Smith

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

Thinking Different Greek Sculptors

Author:Michael Tippett

“Antique art has come down to us in a fragmentary condition, and we have virtuously adapted our taste to this necessity. Almost all our favorite specimens of Greek sculpture, from the sixth century onward, were originally parts of compositions, and if we were faced with the complete group in which the Charioteer of Delphi was once a subsidiary figure, we might well experience a moment of revulsion. We have come to think of the fragment as more vivid, more concentrated, and more authentic.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Art Moments Might Groups Conditions Century Figures Taste Greek Composition Sculpture Fragments Vivid Adapted Antiques Revulsion Delphi

Book:The nude: a study in ideal form

Source: The nude: a study in ideal form

“I don't know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they're really good. And there's just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that's the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there's going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don't care whether it's art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don't think so.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Looks Mean Art Play Care Culture Literature Numbers Millions Drama Don't Care I Don't Care Greek Volume Sheer Looking Back Handful Devalue

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“The Greeks had considered hope the final evil in Pandora's box. They also gave us an image of perfect nobility: a human being lovingly doing her duty to another human being despite all threats, and going to her death with pride and courage, not deterred by any hope - Antigone.”

Humans Evil Human Beings Perfect Duty Pride Threat Finals Boxes Despite Greek Nobility Pandora Antigone Pandora's Box

Book:The Future of the Humanities

Source: The Future of the Humanities

“We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship.”

God Used Religious Forget Figures Objects Worship Rivers Saint Chiefs Greek Fancy Reasoning Divinity Mars Refrain Sanctity Venus Allegory Pantheon Minerva

Author:Julian Huxley

“Everyone on my team is different in terms of how long before a workout they prefer to eat. I like to eat my big meal 4.5-5 hours before I play. I usually eat a carb either rice or pasta with tofu or chicken. Around 2 hours before I play to like to eat greek yogurt with a banana.”

Long Different Play Bigs Term Hours Team Greek Meals Chickens Workout Rice Bananas Pasta Yogurt Carbs Tofu Greek Yogurt

Author:Kim Smith

“One of the things that really intrigued us the most about the whole Wonder Woman mythology is the actual mythology of it. Her character has distinct roots in classic Greek mythology.”

Whole Character Facts Wonder Roots Mythology Greek Classic Greek Mythology Intrigued Wonder Woman Greek Myth

Author:Bruce Timm

“The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.”

People Ideas States Bigs Kids Effort Behinds Huge Illusion Capacity Opposites Notion Affair Currents Greek Delusion Living On Old Ideas

Author:James Hillman

“If something gets under my own skin, and keeps reoccurring, it starts to take on a certain weight and value, and I think, "I have to put this in the song. I have no choice but to mention Greek Cypriots in this song." It's a little internal challenge to myself. Like creating little imaginary rituals in yourself to help the song go from nonexisting to existing.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Helping Certain Values Song Choices Challenges My Own Creating Skins Weight Greek Internals Ritual Imaginary Cypriots

Author:Andrew Bird

“Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.”

Looks Bigs Guy Mines Pops Greek Privacy Bucks Greek God

Author:Bruce Dern

“Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.”

Thinking Years Two Strong Careers Knowing Training Built Foundation Greek Two Years Latin Longevity Attics Strong Foundation

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.”

Writing Moving Mother Memories Source Mythology Greek Muse Greek Mythology Greek Myth

Author:Marge Piercy

“The way I see film is I think film is like going out to dinner. I feel it's a banquet. You don't want to have the same food you have at home. You want to go and eat a fantastic Chinese meal or Italian or Greek.”

Thinking Way Want Feels Home Film Dinner Fantastic Chinese Greek Meals Italian Going Out Banquets

Author:Guillermo del Toro

“One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand these eighteenth-century people, that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society, and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to.”

People Trying Life Is Virtue Study Century Example Regret Honor Ideals Convinced Greek Classic Latin Historic Grounding

Author:David McCullough

“I grew up in England and we spent most of the time on Latin and Greek and very little on science, and I think that was good because it meant we didn't get turned off. It was... Science was something we did for fun and not because we had to.”

Thinking Littles Fun Grew Grew Up England Greek Latin Turned Off Latin And Greek

Author:Freeman Dyson

“People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the discourse of science or logic related directed to the external world. The other was mythos, what the Greeks called myth, which didn't mean a fantasy story, but it was a narrative associated with ritual and ethical practice but it helped us to address problems for which there were no easy answers, like mortality, cruelty, the sorrow that overtakes us all that's part of the human condition. And these two were not in opposition, we needed both.”

“You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?”

Greek Why Not Polish

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.”

World Giving Book Together Wonder Wonderful This World Flower Civilization Greek Paradise Palestine Greece Psalms Book Of Psalms Greek Civilization

Author:William E. Gladstone

“Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.”

Made Jokes Greek Plato Bernard Shaw

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.”

Two Would Be Language Modern Ancient Greek Hebrew Modern Languages

Author:W. H. Auden

“A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.”

Fingers Greek Fists Biodiversity Flipped Apprenticeship Mathematical Logic Holism Summing Up Parts Of A Whole

Book:The Blind Assassin: A Novel

Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel

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