Famous quotes containing the words greek, city and/or states:
“The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.”
—Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)
“Colonel Bat Guano: Okay, Im going to get your money for you. But if you dont get the President of the United States on that phone, you know whats going to happen to you?
Group Captain Lionel Mandrake: What?
Colonel Bat Guano: Youre going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)