It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.
James Merrill

Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
Eric Johnston

My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square.
Horace Gregory

My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
Amy Sedaris

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.
James Cronin

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
J. K. Rowling

Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.
Lucas Papademos

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.
Curt Flood

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
Arne Jacobsen

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
Theodore White

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.
Melina Mercouri

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.
Edward Bond

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
John Acton

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord Acton

So it won't be a surprise when the Greek default actually happens and we expect it one way or the other to be relatively soon.
Lucas Papademos

Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously.
Christopher Nolan

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.
C. P. Scott