186 Greek Quotes for You to Enjoy

My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have Greek blood. Agnes Varda

War Mother Father He French Blood Greek Turned

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

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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life. Anne Carson

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I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. Anne Rice

Beginning Ancient Study Read Am Greek Languages

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

Today People Path Remain Voted Greece Greek Greek People European Eurozone

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy. Arsenio Hall

Man Black Name Very Greek Means Unique

It's funny because as much as I've done Dr. Freeman, I guess because I shave right afterwards, people don't recognize me necessarily as Dr. Freeman, whereas a small role like 'Garden State' or 'Get Him to the Greek', which is the funniest one to me, they're like, 'Hey, you're that dude!' and you're like, 'Oh my God!' Which is awesome. Ato Essandoh

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If you look at the Greek economic record, it's been very similar to the U.S. experience in the first four years of the Great Depression. And after having a Depression-sized event, they've cut the unit-labor cost in Greece - they've closed something like half the gap with Germany. Austan Goolsbee

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I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy. Brendan Coyle

Myself Comedy Drama See Performer Greek Modern

The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars. Bruno Maag

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Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. C. P. Scott

Good Word Half Latin Television Come Greek

It is certainly possible that the Greek economy can revive and achieve some growth over the years ahead. Charles Dallara

Achieve Possible Some Over Economy Years Revive Greek Certainly Growth

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. Chita Rivera

Way French Been Italian Greek American Really Lucky Played

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

You Arab Polish Greek American English Why Why Not

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. Christopher Nolan

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I went to USC where there's a huge Greek system. The school is in a pretty seedy area, so the only social life is at these fraternities. I never joined one myself, but I had a lot of friends who were in frats and I would go to those parties. I had a healthy dose of being around frat life while I was in school. Dave Franco

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When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We paid $300, and they said you cannot use it because it is taken. Pegasus Funds. Then we said Pegasus is kind of a horse. We did not want to be the Unicorn Fund. So we pulled out a horse book. David Tepper

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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. Devdutt Pattanaik

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I've played the Greek classics; I've played the English classics. I promise you, I'm not complacent, because I hope to be playing all sorts of stuff that I've never played before while the mind - and the body - still functions. Diana Rigg

Hope You Mind Before Complacent Promise Classics Never Stuff Sort Because Still Greek While Body English Functions Played Playing

I've done a lot of kale as well as broccoli. I love it. Asparagus I couldn't stand before, but now it is part of my meals. All three of those are greens that I never used to eat. Now, a smoothie for me is nothing but fruits and veggies and vanilla Greek yogurt. Donald Driver

I can't tell you how lucky I feel. I've gotten to work Peter Facinelli 'American Odyssey,' and I got to do 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2' - which really gave me such a tremendous amount of pride and patriotism, and it was very close to my heart. I've really had such great support, so many great teachers, and so many wonderful people surrounding me. Elena Kampouris

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