Top 30 Quotes About Greek Chorus
#1. Disney features, especially the early ones, were horror movies with cute critters: Greek tragedies with a hummable chorus. Forcing children to confront the loss of home, parent, friends and fondest pets, these films imposed shock therapy on four-year-olds.
Richard Corliss
#2. Life is directly proportional to happiness and sadness.
Santosh Kalwar
#3. Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.
Euripides
#5. A kiss makes the heart young again a wipes out all the tears.
Rupert Brooke
#6. Tool interrupted, 'do you mock me, or your own ignorance? Not even the lichen of the tundra is at peace. All is struggle, all is war for dominance. Those who lose, vanish.
Steven Erikson
#7. My goats are not contemplative, accepting, or introspective. They are the Greek chorus of my farm, sometimes of my life. They watch me closely and remind me that I am foolish.
Jon Katz
#8. We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
Terence McKenna
#9. You fat bitch! he said, and the party gasped like a Greek chorus.
Daniel Handler
#10. There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.
Jeff Flake
#11. And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.
Melinda M. Snodgrass
#12. Despite their authoritarian light show, those ice-cream trucks of death couldn't do any more for Perkus's murdered infatuation, his crushed crush, than could keening Greek chorus, or a moaning witch doctor.
Jonathan Lethem
#13. I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.
Brad Herzog
#14. [The Joker is a] psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy ... Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.
Heath Ledger
#15. 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
#16. I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to me, so the murmuring Greek chorus of a hashtag might be a perfect way to liven them up and give them a bit of dimension.
Susan Orlean
#18. Most often in history it was the conquerors who learned willingly from the conquered.
Eric Hoffer
#19. Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.
Aristophanes
#21. You don't use words like 'kind of interested' to describe how I feel about you.
Melina Marchetta
#22. All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
Gabriel Mann
#23. That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.
Jorge Garcia
#25. I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.
Jenny Hval
#26. I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.
Joseph Boyden
#27. Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!
Deborah Wiles
#28. If you're not controversial you don't have anything to say. If you're not controversial you're boring. If you're bored you're boring to be with so don't ever tell anyone you re bored.
Sol Gordon
#29. Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.
Milton Glaser
#30. Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports, and the weather forecast are about the only things spared.
Jean Baudrillard
