Quotes About Odyssey

He translates one book of the Iliad, two of the Odyssey, plus an admirable slice of Plato's Republic. Five lines on an average day, ten on a good one, scribbled onto yellow legal pads in his crimped pencil-writing and stuffed into boxes beneath the dining table. Sometimes he believes his translations are adequate. Usually he decides they're terrible. He shows them to no one.

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'2001: A Space Odyssey' - I'd watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first 'religious experience' I'd ever had watching a film. Finally, I was able to pick up on what the film was transmitting almost entirely through dialogue.

I always thought it would be good to do a psychedelic movie like '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

'The Odyssey' is a great poem to refugee-dom... Odysseus is not entirely a refugee... he's somebody who's blown off course. The entire book is an exploration of that theme... I reread it every year... That's not as surprising as it sounds, because it's a rip-roaring book.

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.

This classification is applied to the two Homeric epics: the Iliad is simple and based on suffering, the Odyssey is complex and based on character.

APLUSTRE  (APLU'STRE)   n.s.[Latin.]The ancient ensign carried in sea vessels. The one holds a sword in her hand, to represent the Iliad, as the other has an aplustre, to represent the Odyssey, or voyage of Ulysses.Addison.

It was an absurd journey.

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.

un Ulisse senz'altra Itaca che quella interiore.

The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.

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.

There is no final destination to our journey.

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

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

Her stories will no doubt reconfirm the only sliver of irrefutable wisdom on the subject of kin The Liars' Club's odyssey has taught me, now oft-repeated: a dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would you go?

Afortunado aquel que, como Ulises, ha visto cien paisajes»

Spend less time shopping, more time traveling.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

Lily white's petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

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

I reread the Odyssey at that time, which I had first read in school and remembered as a story of a homecoming.But it is not a story of a homecoming. How could the Greeks who knew that one never enters the same river twice, believe in homecoming? Odysseus does not return home to stay, but to set off again. The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile.