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

The earliest complete Odyssey to have survived is from the late tenth century, now in Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence, — Adam Nicolson

Movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Off to the side were dozens of keypunch machines - what passed in those days for computer terminals. — Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

Where we sail and anchor our heart fill up the multitude odyssey paving to the coming home of our soul. — Angelica Hopes

There are 201 words in the Iliad and the Odyssey that occur only once in Homer and never again in the whole of Greek literature. — Adam Nicolson

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. — Robert Dessaix

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

The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love. — Pete Hamill

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer

Mistress; please: are you divine, or mortal? — Homer

Goddess of song, teach me the story
of a hero. — Homer

I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then. — Margaret Atwood

The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law? — Bernhard Schlink

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

In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat. — Jami Attenberg

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it. — Lana Wachowski

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

Lily white's petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet. — Delano Johnson

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

Sometimes it was the journey that counted and every one of them had signed on for an odyssey. — Evan Currie

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

I long to reach my home and see the day of my return. It is my never-failing wish.' Homer, The Odyssey — Andy Miller

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. — G.K. Chesterton

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

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

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

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters. — George Papandreou

The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name. — Oscar Wilde

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,
who was driven far journeys — Homer

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices — Homer

The voyage of a lifetime starts at the windowsill. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin. — Robert Graves

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference. — Tom Bodett

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

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

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. — Philip Pullman