Odyssey Quotes

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

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.

I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

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

Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut.

All confessions are Odysseys.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

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

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.

What if The Odyssey has no more validity or authenticity than one of the other stories that you hear Odysseus telling? Whoever created The Odyssey was incredibly hip to stuff that we think, in our post-modernist, post-structuralist era, we're uncovering for the first time; but we aren't.

The Odyssey and Iliad say things about the human condition in ways we should re-acquaint ourselves with, and use as a prism to interpret though.

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

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

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

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.