An Oresteia Quotes

#1. I love 'Star Wars,' you know, and I can't remember the last story meeting I've been in where 'Star Wars' wasn't referenced. It's so perfect in so many ways.

Jon Favreau

#2. Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

Joseph Campbell

#3. I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.

Peter Milligan

#4. When we give with love and joy, and accept with an open heart and deep gratitude, abundance fills our emptiness.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Oh, to be the author of prison letters. It's a young girl's dream come true.

Jenny B. Jones

#6. I hadn't thought to bring anything to wash down the blood. I wondered if they had a font for holy water, and whether anyone would object to me using it as a drinking fountain. Though given that I was trying to absorb vampire magic, using holy water as a chaser probably wasn't a great idea.

Jim C. Hines

#7. The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of man and woman to the existence of the gods or of God.

George Steiner

#8. When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.

Daniel Barenboim

#9. No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later." Chorus, Aeschylus' "Eumenides" from the Oresteia

Aeschylus

#10. Virtue is presupposed in friendship.

Walter Savage Landor

#11. It has been said that life only gives us what we can handle. But this is not the case. Life often kills us, that's the truth. But that's how phoenixes are born.

C. JoyBell C.

#12. I wonder ... ," she said, "if there was such a thing as time machines, would anyone ever use them to go to the future?

Rainbow Rowell

#13. Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.

Stephen King