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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
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. -- Diogenes
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. -- Plutarch
II know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology. -- Mads Mikkelsen
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. -- Virginia Woolf
To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit... -- Edith Hamilton
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. -- Aleister Crowley
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. -- Vladimir Lenin
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. -- Milan Kundera
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. -- Karl Marx
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. -- Samuel Johnson
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' -- Immanuel Kant
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. -- Brendan Fraser
In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis. -- Jay Leno
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. -- Werner Herzog
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. -- Thomas Jefferson
'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless. -- Michael Franti
There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian. -- Thales
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color. -- John Henrik Clarke
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. -- J. K. Rowling
Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time. -- Robert Beverly Hale
Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. -- Jose Marti
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim. -- Reza Aslan
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I like to cook simple things, like vegetable egg-white omelets; roast chicken; sauteed chicken breast with curry powder; and Greek salad. Just things that are fresh and healthy and fast and easy, because I have such a crazy schedule. -- Sasha Cohen
Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected. -- Michael Symon
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. -- Thomas Paine
The Greek people are entrepreneurial. -- Barack Obama
A heroic nature is very Greek. -- Patrick Wilson
Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter' -- Barry S. Strauss
I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese. -- Zach Galifianakis
I'm Greek, and we're conspiratorial by nature. -- George Tenet
Without Greek studies there is no education. -- Leo Tolstoy
My Greek mythology is not strong enough. -- Karl Rove
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Id like to live in the Greek islands -- Paul Wesley
He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess. -- Sparky Anderson
For my part, it was Greek to me. -- William Shakespeare
Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts. -- Oliver Stone
Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)] -- Solon
My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey. -- Misty May-Treanor
I have friends who read my books in Greek. -- Brian Lumley
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I always wanted to play a Greek god in something. -- Kellan Lutz
Eureka is Greek for â??this bath is too hot'. -- Tom Baker
I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora. -- George Papandreou
Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. -- Alphonse Karr
I love Greek mythology, I love gladiators, I love war stuff. -- Tyson Chandler
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy. -- Zach Galifianakis
The Greek word for box is kouti which also means stupid. -- Lucas Samaras
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another. -- Oscar Wilde
Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious. -- W. H. Auden
My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy. -- Cat Cora
Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end. -- Terence McKenna
I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. -- Chita Rivera
Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love -- Rumi
Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
It is important that the Greek people make decisions on important developments. -- George Papandreou
Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading. -- Gilbert Murray
The Greek playwrights, we're all beholden to them, every one of us. -- Oliver Stone
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. -- Edmund Waller
Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek. -- Ann Brashares
Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama. -- Eric Johnston
I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had. -- Eric Bana
I have a deep sense of responsibility to my country and Greek people. -- George Papandreou
My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married. -- Troy Polamalu
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. -- Juvenal
You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM! -- Rick Riordan
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks. -- Taylor Schilling
Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent. -- C. A. Bartol
I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths. -- David S. Goyer
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium. -- Edith Hamilton
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. -- Moliere
There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture. -- Nicholas Biddle
Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. -- C. P. Scott
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek. -- Anne Rice
Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it. -- C. P. Scott
My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. -- James Cronin
All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The space of early Greek cosmology was structured by logos - resonant utterance or word. -- Marshall McLuhan
Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes. -- Mark Twain
Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body. -- Oscar Wilde
Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine." -- Jon Gordon
I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve. -- Brad Herzog
People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete. -- Giles Duley
I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry. -- Zelo
"Yog" is an abbreviation - my real name is Yorgos, which is Greek for George. -- George Michael
I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek. -- Rita Wilson
Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour... -- Robin Lane Fox
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb. -- Dennis Lehane
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. -- Christopher Hitchens
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us. -- Michael Tippett
The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese. -- Fernando Pessoa
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. -- Billy Joel
My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper. -- Amy Sedaris
Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done. -- Edward Bond
For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series. -- Frank Bruno
Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us." -- Ken Burns
Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus. -- Terre Thaemlitz
Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool' -- Tim Sandlin
Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man. -- Edward Gibbon
Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born. -- Propertius
The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions. -- Rita Wilson
It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers. -- Francois Rabelais
I know a little about Greek mythology. It's not that far away from the Nordic mythology. -- Mads Mikkelsen
Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. -- Robert Johnson
Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community. -- Johnny Otis
All you have to do is wear a hat, dark glasses and carry a Greek newspaper.... -- Sharon Stone
Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay. -- Stacy Aumonier
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. -- Penelope Lively
..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton -- Edith Hamilton
It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek... is like a beautiful opera, but way better. -- Troy Polamalu
The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. -- Jane Garmey
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together. -- George Papandreou
Let's stop kidding ourselves that Greek debt is the Euro's key problem. With Greece gone, who's next ? -- Alex Morritt
Greek tragedy was pre-Freudian, so every emotion has to be so raw; there are no psychological undertones. -- Lydia Leonard

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