Top 32 Acropolis's Quotes
#1. Characteristic of the overall difference between Boston and New York, the population at the Acropolis was far less forlorn. Its customers were just those who, for whatever reason, wanted to eat coffee-shop food at very strange hours.
Whit Stillman
#2. I often find that I rock back and forth with a beat in my head constantly. If i stop rocking, it usually means I've hit a snag in my writing.
Mitch Albom
#3. Out the window in the distance, contradicting the prairie, a mirage of downtown Chicago ascended to a kind of lurid acropolis, its light as if from nightly immolation warped to the red end of the spectrum, smoldering as if always just about to explode into open flames.
Thomas Pynchon
#4. We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.
Donald Hall
#5. Much has been said and continues to be said of what little concern the Turks had for the Acropolis treasures.
Melina Mercouri
#6. Step up to red alert."
Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
- Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf
Rob Grant
#7. Musically I try to connect a common bridge between such exhilarating feelings as performing at the Acropolis, to the emotions each and every one of us feel everyday. In the end, a good melody will always stand the test of time.
Bradley Joseph
#8. I think it means that what can be seen by anybody isn't all that important ... I guess.
Haruki Murakami
#9. I suggested that someone grab Bill Gates and get him to install a new operating system, but apparently he's not a demon" At Reaver's eye roll she nodded. "Right? I was surprised too.
Larissa Ione
#10. The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.
David Sedaris
#11. Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles.
Sascha Radetsky
#12. I'm not a highly social person. I'm a highly productive person.
Evangeline Lilly
#13. In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.
Jeff Goodell
#14. Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.
Eleanora Duse
#15. But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an art in fact, the most important and at the same time the most difficult and complex art to be practiced by man.
Erich Fromm
#17. Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.
Harold Urey
#18. A lawyer aint a priest. Nor a doctor. Law's more vagrant than sickness or sin. We make our case. We'd be fools to say what a dozen other fools might think of it.
Cormac McCarthy
#19. When we retake the ancient places, I will cover the Acropolis in snow.
Rick Riordan
#20. We've come full circle but the best remains the heart of the city, the greatest center of the greatest city, our Acropolis, where our Christmas tree is lighted.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
#21. To remove all credibility from what you're saying try wearing sunglasses on your forehead.
Demetri Martin
#22. Most British newspapers now have more columns than the Acropolis
Ian Jack
#23. The ruins stood above the hissing traffic like some monument to doomed expectations.
Don DeLillo
#24. Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.
Hilda Doolittle
#25. The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.
Aristotle.
#26. Until we meet again at the Acropolis, bro. I'll be the one killing giants.
Rick Riordan
#27. Earth is only a pale version of heaven, not the other way around.
Greg Laurie
#28. Ever since I left Greece more than two decades ago, it has been my dream to return and perform at the Acropolis. This project took more than a year and a half to plan and accomplish, and I would like to thank my band and crew and the scores of people involved in helping my dream become a reality.
Yanni
#29. The Master said, Learning without thought is naught; thought without learning is dangerous.
Confucius
#30. [At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!
Elsie De Wolfe
#31. And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway, as far as I'm concerned, is in New York the pride of New York theater.
Tony Kushner
#32. They were postmodernism up the pole.
Morrissey
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