Quotes About Briseis In The Iliad

#1. I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

Carrie Underwood

#2. 'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.

David Benioff

#3. Perhaps the rebuilding of the body and spirit is the greatest service derivable from our forests, for what worth are material things if we lose the character and quality of people that are the soul of America?

Arthur Carhart

#4. She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

Graham Greene

#5. Flowers that had bloomed brilliant from spring through autumn blackened under the killing frost.

Nora Roberts

#6. I was a serious competitive figure skater and still ice-skate as much as I can. Anyway, I once brought a date to the rink to have him experience what I was into. So all is going fine, and then - bam! - he bit it extremely hard! Skate time was over. His bruises were scary. I felt so bad.

Christian Serratos

#7. Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.

Prince Charles