Greek Play Quotes

#1. Charley looked like someone from a Greek play, Electra, or Cassandra. She looked like someone had just set her favorite city on fire.

Kelly Link

#2. Beauty misleads without lying, like an ambiguous prophecy in a Greek play. We read into it our hopes, to which it is indifferent. We ask it to be true and good, but it has its own way of measuring worth, its own standard and authority.

Phillip Margulies

#3. You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Ruth Negga

#4. It's human; we all put self interest first.

Euripides

#5. Shakespeare's bitter play [Troilus and Cressida] is therefore a dramatization of a part of a translation into English of the French translation of a Latin imitation of an old French expansion of a Latin epitome of a Greek romance. (p. 55)

Gilbert Highet

#6. Drawing is like studying Greek and piano- you can't speak or play in your conscious, which is clumsy. You must get it into your subconscious, which is graceful. But that takes time.

Robert Beverly Hale

#7. There's nothing like a stressful day.

Trent Reznor

#8. 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.

Neil MacGregor

#9. You say some Greek philosophers could dazzle their audiences
with their riddles? That does not interest me at all. Bring
more wine instead and play your lute; your changes in tones
remind me of the wind that rushes past and disappears,
just like us.

Omar Khayyam

#10. Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.

Bear Bryant

#11. On the one hand there is myself, and on the other the rest of the universe. I am not rooted in the earth like a tree. I rattle around independently. I seem to be the center of everything, and yet cut off and alone.

Alan W. Watts

#12. In childbirth grief begins.

Euripides

#13. I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.

Negash Ali

#14. I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

Kellan Lutz

#15. In a battle of wills, of the gods of old. For each his revenge, will he forfeit his soul. On the chess board of blood, will their narrative play. aged, innocent lives, revenge claims her way. Out of hate will come love, and love will come hate. For immortal and man, have entwined their damned fate.

L.A. Starkey

#16. Under (Lyndon) Johnson, the Senate functions like a Greek tragedy. All the action takes place offstage, before the play begins. Nothing is left for the participants but the enactment of their prescribed roles.

Bobby Baker

#17. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

Euripides

#18. Everyone on my team is different in terms of how long before a workout they prefer to eat. I like to eat my big meal 4.5-5 hours before I play. I usually eat a carb either rice or pasta with tofu or chicken. Around 2 hours before I play to like to eat greek yogurt with a banana.

Kim Smith

#19. When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?

Jay Woodman

#20. Old loves are dropped when new ones come

Euripides

#21. I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Euripides

#22. I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

Neil Patrick Harris

#23. I'm this dude that can play a farmhand and a handyman and sometimes a Greek god.

Luke Evans

#24. True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

William J. Clinton

#25. Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Euripides

#26. Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.

Euripides

#27. I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

Carla Gugino