Greek Drama Quotes

#1. Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it.

John Eaton

#2. If he were around this place as a professor, he could teach 'Appropriate Behavior in Classical Greek Drama,' a course that would be over before it began.

Philip Roth

#3. That's the way Greek drama worked.

Josephine Angelini

#4. I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

Brendan Coyle

#5. I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

Margot Kidder

#6. Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.

Eric Johnston

#7. Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made ...

Philip Roth

#8. Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

#9. Otherwise he stayed in the background, a small figure in a painting, while life was played out in the foreground. However,

Nina George

#10. One constructs for oneself a satisfactory system only when one is ignorant of the characteristics of the phenomena to be explained.

Maupertuis

#11. I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Anne-Marie Duff

#12. Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.

Aristophanes

#13. Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!
Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Aristophanes

#14. The moving light, rejoicing in its strength,
Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way,
In golden glory, like some strange new sun ...

Aeschylus

#15. The parts of the body are the closest and most immediate things in our physical environment, and are thus most deeply imprinted in our cognition, so it is no wonder that body-parts are the sources of terms for all kinds of more abstract concepts in so many languages.

Guy Deutscher

#16. The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.

Artur Schnabel

#17. From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.

Asafa Powell

#18. Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

Deborah Wiles

#19. I was at a point in my life where I didn't have any hope, but it wasn't the end for me. I buckled down, put in the effort and hard work and was able to get myself out of that hole. You always have to have hope.

Jason Peter

#20. Chorus of women: [ ... ] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

Aristophanes

#21. But it is equally clear and certain that the Dionysos of Greek worship and of the drama was not a babe in the cradle.

Jane Ellen Harrison

#22. I'm meant to be an animation director. That world, and the culture of stop-motion, is where I want to live. It's more my problem than Hollywood's. I'm not attuned to Hollywood.

Henry Selick

#23. THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!

Rick Riordan

#24. Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.

George Eliot

#25. On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#26. She said things and I nodded. I didn't pay attention. She didn't pay attention to me. We floated through our days in that way.

Frederick Barthelme

#27. We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#28. In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Khaled Hosseini

#29. Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell.

Tom Robbins