Odyssey Quotes

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.
Camille Paglia

Time, Spiritual, Political

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.
Kiefer Sutherland

Experience, Play, Acting

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

Story, Water, Hold

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

Mind, Rest, Particular

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Home, After, Read

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.
Georgios A. Papandreou

Difficult, Road, Greece

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.
Raymond Queneau

True, Story, Value

As filmmakers, we want the audience to have the most complete experience they can. For example, I interviewed Stanley Kubrick years ago around the time of '2001: A Space Odyssey.' I was going to see the film that night in London, and he insisted I sit in one of four seats in the theater for the best view or not watch the film.
Michael Mann

Time, Best, Experience

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

Anyone, Since, Seem

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

Either, Works, Fiction

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.
Raymond Queneau

Point, Story, Side

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

Someone, Story, Diverse

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

Experience, End, Himself

Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.
Wesley Morris

Future, Technology, Friend

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.
Regina Spektor

Beautiful, Song, Story

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.
Robert Fitzgerald

Work, Sea, Lucky

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
Dwight Yoakam

Human, Universe, Movie

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
Matthew Modine

Art, Science, Able

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
Larry Wachowski

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
Karl Marlantes

Great, Yourself, Before

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.
George Saintsbury

Greatest, Story, Though

I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.
David Weber

Done, Remember, Old

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