All confessions are Odysseys.

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

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

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

All confessions are Odysseys.

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.

All societies are historical.

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.

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

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

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

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

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

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Very often, we think of leadership being at the very top of an organisation. I think what's unique about ABG is that we have a very strong cadre of leaders across the organisation who are highly empowered and therefore play a very major role in the growth and evolution of the organization.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.

The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.

Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn't understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

You are going in one second the length of a football field. That means you brain is receiving information from your body what the car is doing physically, bumping, balance, performance.

People look at me and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal.

I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.

We are all just the tip of a pinprick of the millions of things that had to happen in order for us to be here.

Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his.

You've got to build a relationship. You can't just deal with people when it's business. If it is, then you always have to assume that they have an angle when they come at you.

I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

I always felt an outsider.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

There was a group of six women in my household. My mom, aunts and grandma. I watched them in the kitchen.

When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.

We're now at this place where we can make the evolution of academic content match the evolution of the world.

All I know is just how to make people laugh.

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way.