Modern Greek/demotic As Koin%c3%a9 Standard Modern Greek

Famous quotes containing the words modern, greek and/or standard:

    “Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “It is an elegant refinement that God learned Greek when he wanted to become a writer—and that he did not learn it better.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “We don’t want bores in the theatre. We don’t want standardised acting, standard actors with standard-shaped legs. Acting needs everybody, cripples, dwarfs and people with noses so long. Give us something that is different.”
    —Dame Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)