Greek

Patrick Wilson Actor

Greek

"A heroic nature is very Greek."

Greek Heroic

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Elizabeth Gilbert Author, Memoirist

Greek

"Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not."

Lines Despair Greek

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Benjamin Disraeli Politician, Author

Greek

"She is an excellent creature, but she can never remember which came first, the Greeks or the Romans."

Memories Sex Greek

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Demetri Martin Comedian, Actor

Greek

"Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up."

Way Asking Greek

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Don King Promoter

Greek

"Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal."

Beautiful Forgiving Greek

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist

Greek

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

Greek Why Not Polish

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian

Greek

"The Olympics have just started and the Greeks are already 14 medals in debt."

Funny Greek London Olympics

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician

Greek

"Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian."

Long Greek Plato

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Beth Grant Actress

Greek

"I had this great teacher, Milton Katselas, who was this loud Greek who had directed Bette Davis and Liv Ullmann, and brought Edward Albee to this country. He said, "Why do you keep trying to be a Rolex watch when you're the salt of the earth?" Except he said it much louder."

Country Teacher Greek

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Albert Camus Philosopher, Writer

Greek

"Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended."

Men Greek Self Worth

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Anne Carson Poet

Greek

"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."

Thinking Morning Greek

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist

Greek

"I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."]"

Littles Greek Chickens

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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist

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?"

Names Greek Good Questions

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Arianna Huffington Author, Businesswoman

Greek

"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?'"

College Greek Good Life

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Greek

"For mine own part, it was Greek to me."

Greek

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

Greek

"Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey."

Lying Fall Greek

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet

Greek

"These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply."

Hands Attitude Greek

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Greek

"In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it."

Art Cities Greek

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Greek

"Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy. The Greek battle pieces are calm; the heroes, in whatever violent actions engaged, retain a serene aspect."

Hero Gentleman Greek

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Greek

"We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly."

Reality Kings Greek

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