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The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies. -- Margaret Atwood
If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction. -- Matthew Modine
Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship. -- Stephen Colbert
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people. -- Sergey Brin
I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. -- Philip Pullman
The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though. -- Robert Dessaix
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids. -- Gorgias
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
My review of 2001, the year, is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It went on too long, it was hard to follow, and you could only enjoy it if you were really, really, *really* stoned. -- Lewis Black
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.? -- Camille Paglia
The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages. -- J. E. Buckrose
I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it's on. I made the kids watch it every time, too and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick's great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true. -- Bruce Willis
The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or Jack Kerouac or almost any road story, it's really about a man on the road. There's an assumption that the road is too dangerous for women. -- Gloria Steinem
I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it. -- Lana Wachowski
In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat. -- Jami Attenberg
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey. -- Raymond Queneau
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. -- Raymond Queneau
The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? -- Bernhard Schlink
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. -- Raymond Queneau
We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters. -- George Papandreou
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side. -- Raymond Queneau
I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then. -- Margaret Atwood
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together. -- Michael J. Massimino
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides. -- William Golding
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. -- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. -- Regina Spektor
The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.' -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left? -- Oliver Stone
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. -- George Saintsbury
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. -- Raymond Queneau
Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to. -- Elie Wiesel
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation. -- David Frawley
There are no moral or intellectual merits. Homer composed the Odyssey; if we postulate an infinite period of time, with infinite circumstances and changes, the impossible thing is not to compose the Odyssey, at least once. -- Jorge Luis Borges
I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having. -- Kiefer Sutherland
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below. -- Robert Fitzgerald
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being. -- Dwight Yoakam
When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.' -- Franz Wright
The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate. -- Karl Marlantes
2001: A Space Odyssey was a wonderful conundrum when I was a boy, with its giant concepts thrown across the giant screen at Indian Hills Theater. That movie woke me up in ways that I hadn't imagined, and I went searching for book versions of the same drug. -- Robert Reed
Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts. -- Wesley Morris
I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey. -- David Weber
It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness. -- Karen Duffy
That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference. -- Tom Bodett
Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space. -- Camille Paglia
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers some hard truths about the heroic founders of Israel and the Beginnings of Israeli science. The Book of Telling keeps in all the fears and resentments and consolations and warmth of such a process-at once her own story and the tale of a nation. -- Edmund White
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest. -- Andrew Wiles
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey. -- Raymond Queneau
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. -- Camille Paglia
My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Dullea, who was in '2001: Space Odyssey.' That's how I got the name Karim Dule Hill. Growing up, I never liked the name Karim because people would ask me, 'Could you dunk like Kareem Abdul Jabbar?' -- Dule Hill
After 'Divergent,' I got a job rewriting a sci-fi script at Paramount. I think they really liked what I did, so I got a call saying, 'We're about to shoot 'Ninja Turtles' in three or four months; do you wanna come in and do a little work on the script?' That was the beginning of a many-month 'Ninja Turtle' odyssey. -- Evan Daugherty
As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film. -- Michael Mann
Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey." -- Raymond Queneau
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd. -- Allen Ginsberg
Christopher Nolan's 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness. -- Joe Morgenstern
Lily whiteâ??s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet. -- Delano Johnson
It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing. -- Asher Roth
Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul. -- Angelica Hopes
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find. -- Gabriel Fielding
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul. -- Thomas Moore
The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. -- Jon Krakauer

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