Quotes by Greek Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. Angela Carter greek dark dream Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek. Ann Brashares hey lasts greek Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are. Anne Bradstreet greek What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being. Anne Carson greek names somewhere-else The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language. Anne Carson greek morning thinking There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English. Anne Carson always-trying greek thinking I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Anne Rice study greek literature The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And the experience extends a whole lifetime. But the intensity of certain vocalized language affects our bodies in a particular way, and that further actualization propels me. The Greeks explored this; there were very particular meters used in making war, different ones for a love chant. Anne Waldman ark greek war But although in theory physicists realize that their conclusions are ... not certainly true, this ... does not really sink into their consciousness. Nearly all the time ... they ... act as if Science were indisputably True, and what's more, as if only science were true.... Any information obtained otherwise than by the scientific method, although it may be true, the scientists will call "unscientific," using this word as a smear word, by bringing in the connotation from its original [Greek] meaning, to imply that the information is false, or at any rate slightly phony. Anthony Standen greek doe science We believe that what they call "Grexit" [a Greek exit from the eurozone] is not an option for us. Antonis Samaras exit greek believe I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating. Arianna Huffington greek mother men I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?' Arianna Huffington good-life greek college Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. Aristotle money greek people A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. Aristotle coaching greek leadership 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. Arne Jacobsen block greek air Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks. Arrian leader done greek Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are Arthur Koestler laughter tragedy greek That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker? Arthur Miller good-questions greek names I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."] Augusten Burroughs chickens greek littles The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. Augustus De Morgan sacred greek writing «1234567891011»