I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating..
I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows..
The Greeks got into Troy by trying, my pretties; everything's done by trying..
Versatility is one of the few human traits which are universally intolerable. You may be good at Greek and good at painting and be popular. You may b….
The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor f….
khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'..
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Soc….
I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial fi….
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is….
There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a….
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the….
What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?.
Panorama is the first word for landscape in Greek. It was about [how today] we see everything, we get to see everything, everything is shown to you w….
The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one..
I always tried to learn Greek, but all I got out of it was, "poulaki mou." ["My little chicken."].
Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from….
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks..
Come back with your shield - or on it.
[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a G….
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist tho….
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And the exper….