Greek Quotes - page 4

You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM! (Rick Riordan)
A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada. View quote
Rick Riordan
I love Greek Mythology, wish there was a TV series, like being human or smallville, but with the series based around Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Holla Mayne! View quote
Rick Riordan
Rachel: You're a half-blood, too? Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about? Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!... They don't seem to care. View quote
Rick Riordan
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. View quote
Brendan Fraser
My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere! View quote
Axel Munthe
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. View quote
James Hillman
Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek. View quote
Ann Brashares
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. View quote
Bo Bennett
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. View quote
Amy Sedaris
I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them. (Alexandra Wentworth)
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. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy. View quote
Arsenio Hall
I have friends who read my books in Greek. View quote
Brian Lumley
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. View quote
Chita Rivera
Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, eating great octopus salad and some fantastic lamb. Or sipping a little ouzo. I think the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest... Lots of nuts, vegetables, fruits, fresh fish, lean meats, yogurt. View quote
Cat Cora
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. View quote
David Antin
Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity. View quote
Devdutt Pattanaik
In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India. View quote
Devdutt Pattanaik
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin. View quote
Ernie Isley
As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road. (George Papandreou)
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word. View quote
Gilbert Murray
I'm obsessed with Greek mythology. My favorite goddess is Artemis. She's strong and reminds me of Katniss, the heroine of The Hunger Games. View quote
Isabelle Fuhrman
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality. View quote
James Loeb
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. View quote
John Thorn