Quotes About Greek Plays

#1. I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

Paul McAuley

#2. Greek tragedy operates through the ear. It is through the ear primarily that it enters the eyes, the senses, the mind, the heart. It must be spoken aloud. It is designed for that. And until that is done these plays have not been read, have not been used, have not been born.

Paul Roche

#3. Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.

Sugata Mitra

#4. 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

#5. I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

Kat Dennings

#6. 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

#7. Mentioning the faults of others does not rid us of our own.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#8. It's astonishing how folks can get so worked up over something that doesn't exist.

Margaret Atwood

#9. She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it.

Lauren Oliver

#10. Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Ann Brashares

#11. How loud clocks can tick when a room is empty, and one is alone!

Amy Lowell