There’s something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it’s a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.
I have big belief in the Greek real estate market. We live in a lovely country and we need to make investing in Greek real estate more attractive.
And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.
I believe that the Kane/Undertaker story, if you look at epic storytelling like Greek mythology, that is what it is. It is the best piece of epic storytelling that the WWE has ever done.
My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.
Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It’s all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.
‘Greek Street’ is a very strange beast. I think of it as ‘The Long Good Friday’ meets ‘Agamemnon.’ A way of using those fantastically rich stories from Greek tragedy to take a look at our world and to explore some of the things I think about this world.
I made ‘Going Greek’, which was a very sort of crappy fraternity comedy that I did back in 2000.
In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon – in humans, chimeras are one person who contains two sets of DNA. That’s right. One person comes up in tests as two different people.
I’m really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my ‘go-to’ snacks.
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.
I came from a tough neighborhood. I used to be a ‘dirty Greek.’
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
My wife is Greek. I was a non-denomination Christian before we got married.
If you think about it, Jesus was this religious genius who grows up on the Silk Road, and so He’s getting from the West all these Greek ideas from Plato about body and soul.
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
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.
How do you make something the same but different? That’s the question I had to deal with in my approach to the cover painting for ‘Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes.’ I wanted it to have many similarities to ‘Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods,’ but I knew they couldn’t be too similar.
I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida A&M University, and how visible and active all of the sororities and fraternities were. Membership in Black Greek letter organizations on college campuses is preparation for a lifetime of service.
I’ve always felt, with ‘The Iliad,’ a real frustration that it’s read wrong. That it’s turned into this public school poem, which I don’t think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes – it’s become a cliched, British empire part of our culture.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Not all of E. Nesbit’s children’s books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do.
The Greek economy is improving, which should benefit the banking sector.
On my daughter’s first day of kindergarten, another mom said something that made me realize I had become my own Greek, suffocating mother. She said, ‘Just think, in 13 years they’ll leave us and go to college!’ And I went, ‘Gulp.’
When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of all the history.
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish adherence to Greek and Roman ideals, from which our artists cannot get away.
Most of the women in Greek tragedies have their fates predetermined. The gods dictate that such and such will happen to them, and everything they predict comes true. Not Medea.
Every restaurant in the world is owned by a Greek.
You don’t come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.
My dad’s Macedonian, mum Greek… so for as long as I can remember, my uncles have talked about our warrior blood.
Very often, people will come out and say, ‘Greeks aren’t doing things, Greeks aren’t making changes, there’s no reform,’ That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.
So it won’t be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.
When I was a kid, I’d kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
I have friends who read my books in Greek.
Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words – not that I counted much on using them. You’ll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
The first time I was paid was with ‘The Lobster,’ because with the Greek films, we just had to pay ourselves – work for free while making commercials in order to survive.
Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.
If I have to pick one story that most influenced ‘The Hunger Games,’ it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.
I don’t temper how I feel. I’m Greek. I’ve got emotions.
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country’s problems together.
We saw that on the Turkish side there was a sincere wish for peace. But before I could even put my foot back on Greek soil people called me a traitor.
There was a Greek restaurant, the only place we could get Italian food. All of us Italians and many others from other parts of Europe used to go there, and Rajiv and his friends also. Some of his group knew some of my group, and we met just like that.
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.
That’s always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that’s always fun to do.
Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it’s the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there’s not a tragic ending.
‘Doctor Who’ was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.
My music had two protagonists, me and the Greek people.
Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had nothing to set alongside the resounding ‘In the beginning’ in the book of Genesis, where one eternal God creates the universe out of nothing.
The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.
I’m a proud Greek. I carry my Hellenism like a badge of merit.
My mom, well, she’s half Greek, half German-Italian; born in England. She’s just a nomad. She loves Middle Eastern style, Indian style, so much so that she ended up having Indian babies.
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.
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.
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.
My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.
I’ve never been bored in my life, man. I’ve never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I’m an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I’ve studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian… How can you get bored?
