"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries."

-- Gilbert Murray

#Greek Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Language Quotes

“The world is my country. Science my religion.”
“The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures.”
“If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.”
“I'm vulnerable most when I'm in love.”
“O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain....”

Source : "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)
“The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible”
“I have had young fascinations but never love.”
“The filmmakers are very much in their own kind of bubble. It was kind of a revelation to me and I realized why so many of the great filmmakers are one of a kind people. You know, they have a vision. They may be influenced by other filmmakers, but they don't work with them on anything.”

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