Odyssey Quotes - Page 3

• I watch 2001: A Space Odyssey every time it’s on. I made the kids watch it every time, too, and now they just love watching it. Stanley Kubrick’s great. And Blade Runner is one of my top three science fiction films. A lot of it has come true.

  Bruce Willis

  Kids, Space, Blade Runner

  "Bruce Willis: Maybe he really is a sci-fi guy". Interview with Peter Howell, www.thestar.com. September 27, 2012.

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• 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

  Personality, Stories, Diverse

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• The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

  Jon Krakauer

  Epic, Journey

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.

  Andrew Wiles

  Mind, Particular

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• 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

  Romance, Stories, West

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.11, tredition

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• Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.

  Delano Johnson

  Adventure, White, Feet

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• All confessions are Odysseys.

  Raymond Queneau

  Confession

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

  Raymond Queneau

  Fiction, Iliad, Descendants

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• I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actor, kidding ourselves on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between those two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Taken, Hands

  "The Rum Diary". Book by Hunter S. Thompson, 1998.

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• 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

  Historical, Stories, Sides

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

  Raymond Queneau

  Ulysses, Ends

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• I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Mother, Spiritual

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• 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

  Character, Historical Value, Fiction

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• Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.

  Gabriel Fielding

  Writing, Discovery, Voyages

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• Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness.

  Joe Morgenstern

  Space, Stuff, Minutes

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• No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

  David Frawley

  Civilization, Generations, Stories

  David Frawley (2000). “The Oracle of Rama”, p.16, Lotus Press

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• 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

  Spiritual, Thinking, Political

  "Camille Paglia defends David Horowitz". www.salon.com. August 26, 1999.

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• It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

  Karen Duffy

  Journey, Healthy, Incredibles

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". Live chat, www.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• Every great literature has always been allegorical - allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The 'Iliad' is only great because all life is a battle, the 'Odyssey' because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Jobs, Book, Journey

  "A Defense of Nonsense". "The Defendant" by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• My review of 2001, the year, is the same as my review of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It went on too long, it was hard to follow, and you could only enjoy it if you were really, really, *really* stoned.

  Lewis Black

  Space, Years, Long

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• What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.

  Jean Houston

  Spiritual, Jesus, Exercise

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• In A Life In Books, author and graphic design visionary Warren Lehrer crafts a vivid kaleidoscopic odyssey that frames one man’s life through not one, but one hundred different books—and book jackets... An unmistakably modern evocation of the illuminated manuscript.

  Jessica Helfand

  Book, Men, Design

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• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  Camille Paglia

  Mother, Jesus, Father

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.119, Yale University Press

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• In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.

  Sergey Brin

  Space, People, Computer

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• The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters behave in inexplicable ways. It takes a little bit of time to get into the rhythm of the book. I found reading the first 15 chapters of Genesis very very difficult. Once I got past there, I loved reading, and found it very easy. When you get used to the Bible, it becomes thrilling to read (like any great book - I just had exactly the same experience with the Odyssey).

  David Plotz

  Book, Reading, Character

  "Biblically Speaking". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.slate.com. March 4, 2009.

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