Quotes and Sayings about Griechenland

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and by Shakespeare. Neither knew chocolate. The Swiss are known for nonviolence. They are also known for superb chocolate.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Everybody in Greece thinks you're the greatest thing since they put the pocket in pitta.

Megara in Hercules

I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.

Zach Galifianakis

The ancient Greeks invented lots of things we still have today, like medicine and olives. And lots of things that have died out, like democracy and pillars. They also developed culture in the form of yoghurt and theater in all its tedious forms.

Philomena Cunk in Cunk On Earth - Episode 1

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

Malcolm Turnbull

There are three things that every Greek woman must do in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed everyone.

Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

There's two kinds of people: Greeks, and everybody else who wish they was Greek.

Gus Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Give me a word... and I'll show you that the root of that word is Greek.

Gus Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

I had to go to Greek school, where I learned valuable lessons such as, "If Nick has one goat and Maria has nine, how soon will they marry?"

Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

The Greeks were the only ones who had an ear for music.

Nero

Greece... the country that spent money like a rapper whose accountant is Nicolas Cage.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Nicolas Cage

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Griechenland - and that's practically the same thing.

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We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

Donald Hall

Athens

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander the Great

Athens

A lot has happened since my big fat Greek wedding. My father passed away, and his last wish was for us to visit his childhood village and reconnect with our roots. So we're having a reunion.

Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding - 3

Toula: "Why? Why do you love me?"
Ian: "Because I came alive when I met you."

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Love declerations

The man is the head, but the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head any way she wants.

Maria Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Men & Women Marriage

Maria: "Ian, are you hungry?"
Ian: "Uh no, I already ate."
Maria: "Okay, I make you something."

Maria Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

What do you mean, "he don't eat no meat"? That's okay. I'll make lamb.

Aunt Voula in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Barbecue Meat

My brother Nick has two jobs: to cook, and to marry a Greek virgin.

Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My cousins have two volumes; loud and louder!

Toula Portokalos in My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Germany Fairytales

Australia... home of every animal that seems like it should already be extinct.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Australia

Russia... the prequel and sequel to the Sowjet Union.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Russia

AI is a nightmare to me. It's inhumane. You can't get more inhumane than artificial intelligence.

Nicolas Cage - November 2023

Artificial Intelligence

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

Nicolas Cage

I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.

Nicolas Cage

Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.

Sandra Boynton

Chocolate

Legos are like chocolate... there's always room for some more.

Chocolate Lego

When I see chocolate, I hear to voices in my head:

One says: "Eat it!"
The other one says: "Can't you listen? You're supposed to eat it!"

Chocolate

Threatening the British by saying there will be only salt and vinegar on the table, is like threatening the French by saying there will only be wine and baguettes, or threatening the Swiss by saying there'll only be chocolate and Nazi gold.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) - Brexit II

France England & Great Britain Switzerland

Joey: "My agent thinks I should have a name that's more neutral."
Chandler: "Joey... Switzerland?"

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Neutrality Switzerland

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

See, he's gotta have a weakness. Because everybody's got a weakness. I mean, for what? Pandora, it was the box thing. For the Trojans - hey, they bet on the wrong horse, okay?

Hades in Hercules

If you read my blog, you know I'm a pilates freak. And by pilates, I mean waffles.

Zach Galifianakis

Dessert

I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.

Zach Galifianakis

One downside of our big brains is we're the only creatures who are aware that death is inevitable. Although, if you lined ten dogs in a row and shot them one by one, the dog on the end would probably get the gist by about dog four.

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Brain

Cells couldn't multiply without this, the IKEA instruction manual for life, DNA. DNA is tiny yet comlex, like Tom Cruise.

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Tom Cruise

Here was the chance to provide the leadership the country deserved: positive, modern, rational, appealing to people's hopes rather than their fears.

Malcolm Turnbull

Australia

The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.

Malcolm Turnbull

Freedom of Press Journalism

Hidden talent counts for nothing.

Nero

Talent

What an artist dies in me!
[Qualis artifex pereo.]

Nero - last words

Last Words Latin Phrases

If you're a homeless, alcoholic Scott and you had tourettes... how would they ever know?

Jimmy Carr

Scotland

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