#greek

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#ancient greeks #arms #center #circle #described

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. ↗

— Nathaniel Lee

#joined #then #tug #war

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected. ↗

— Michael Symon

#bonded #bunch #connected #cried #dinner

I have friends who read my books in Greek. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#friends #greek #i #read #who

All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#chorus #dialogue #greek #had #hamptons

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo. ↗

— Jose Marti

#beautiful #being #contains #every #god

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. ↗

— Karl Marx

#ending #good #greek #meet #met

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

— Melina Mercouri

#crucial #decisive #desert #greek #how

I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am. ↗

— George Michael

#any #between #connection #ethnic #felt