#greeks

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail? ↗

— George Chakiris

#fail #greeks #open #restaurants #why

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#flourishing #greeks #grew #hollywood #most

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#character #films #greeks #interest #more

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage. ↗

— Tony Randall

#because #beethoven #crime #everybody #going

The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. ↗

— Stella Adler

#come #comes #greeks #life #means

Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#enlightenment #great #greeks #humanism #ideas

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#i #known #state #uncertainty #unknown

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#athens #democracy #fly #foreign #greece

Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#athens #begin #construct #faster #games

And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#arts #being #being funny #certainly #citizen