The Odyssey Quotes

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Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

All confessions are Odysseys.

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures.

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?

He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.

I suppose I'd have to say that my favourite author is Homer. After Homer's Ilaid, I'd name The Odyssey, and then I'd mention a number of plays of Euripides.

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

Odyssey Dawn? That's not a military operation. That's a Carnival Cruise ship.

My review of 2001, the year, is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It went on too long, it was hard to follow, and you could only enjoy it if you were really, really, *really* stoned.

Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.

Go over to Greece with the Iliad and Odyssey. These have elements of history, and they have non-historical elements. It's very difficult to pull them apart. And I think there's not much reason to.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Death is just the birth of yet another odyssey.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence

Anything that had happened once on Earth should be expected millions of times elsewhere in the Universe

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

Some women's arms are placed of exile

Some women's arms are places of exile

but sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea

Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul.

The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come to the threshold of old age.