Troy Achilles Best Quotes

#1. I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

Sheridan Smith

#2. Clubs spoke so bluntly ... so callously. But that was Clubs. He wasn't even really a pessimist; he just said the things that he didn't think others wanted to acknowledge.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Khalil Gibran

#4. No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.

Creed Bratton

#5. This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector

Madeline Miller

#6. Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

Mary Renault

#7. And overpowered by memory
Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely
For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching
Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself,
Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again
And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.

Homer

#8. Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

Gary Krist

#9. If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

Vanna Bonta

#10. I have stood upon Achilles' tomb
and heard Troy doubted,
Time will doubt of Rome

George Gordon Byron

#11. '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

#12. You put a blob of yellow here, and another at the further edge of the canvas: straight away a rapport is established between them. Colour acts in the way that music does ...

Georges Braque

#13. After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

Umberto Eco

#14. Peleus lived to a good age and survived his famous son Achilles, an initiate of the Centaur Horse fraternity, who was killed at the siege of Troy.

Robert Graves

#15. I didn't pursue acting as a career until I got my first job. I didn't think I could make a living at it. You hear such horror stories about how hard it is to get work as an actor. It is hard, but I decided to roll with it.

Mary Page Keller

#16. This is how I think of us, when I remember our nights at Troy: Achilles and I beside each other, Phoinix smiling and Automedon stuttering through the punch lines of jokes, and Briseis with her secret eyes and quick, spilling laughter.

Madeline Miller

#17. My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem
then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

Erica Jong

#18. The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

Madeline Miller

#19. With him died a story
That will not be retold:
How, forsaking glory,
Achilles grows old
While Hector dusts his trophies
Behind high walls-
For in his unsung strophes
Troy never falls

R.S. Gwynn

#20. I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

Alice Walker