Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanis Varoufakis

I plan to concentrate on helping set up a Pan-European political movement, inspired by the Athens Spring, that will work toward Europe's democratization.

Yanis Varoufakis

For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.

You'll be able to come out of Athens Street turning left or south on 365 and be able to have a lane to climb and get up to speed in.

Tiesto

I think one of the greatest gigs I played, and we've had many, but to play the opening ceremony at - at the Olympic games in Athens 2004 was pretty special, you know? Because it's such a big deal for the whole world. And the whole world's watching. So that was definitely one of the special ones.

We promote Athens as the midway stop in the interstate, and these places are giving people reasons to stop.

I can't even begin to tell you. I've raced in Athens and other championships but I've never been quite as emotional as tonight.

Jacques Rogge

This successful transition... was key to the Sydney, Salt Lake City (Winter Olympics) and Athens Games. We know our Chinese friends will succeed in this transition too.

We found out when the University of Georgia at Athens called and told us that they wanted to come and visit to see what we do because we were No. 1.

Usually 4A teams do not have 11 (good) players, but Athens does and came up with the plays it need. I was very impressed with them. I think we can do better, but we got beat by a good team.

Suzanne Collins

If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.

Tom Jackson

Some of those families are here in Athens trying to live with the students.

Craig Stevens

I am so immensely proud to be representing my country at the Athens Olympic Games, that's more than enough for me.

Yasser Arafat

We had met. I had met Shimon Peres in Cairo, in Lisbon before that, before that my colleagues met him in Athens with the participation of the European Union's Javier Solana and we have no objection to meeting him at any time.

Leisel Jones

Life has changed dramatically for me since the 2004 Athens Olympics. With every meet I'm learning more. I have no real pressure on me since I have both breaststroke (100m/200m) world records.

One lesson from Athens was that we routed no video between an Avid edit session and a graphics session.

One year after the Athens Olympic Games and the European football championship, the Greek basketball team has climbed to the highest peak of Europe once again,

Since I've finished Athens and then of course worlds in L.A. (where she won gold in the 3000 metre pursuit) this year was a terrific result for me. I've never represented Australia at commonwealth games it's going to be huge and I'm hoping to ride track and road.

We want to make these people feel like Athens is their home.

Athens was not the end, but the beginning, ... Some people might have been happy (with the medals in Athens), but not me. Since then we've been going faster and faster, and now we're on top of the world.

Renaldo Nehemiah

Athens on the third (of July) probably sounds like the place.

Athens left runners on in scoring position with less than two outs in three innings. We had our opportunities to score, we just didn't take advantage.

Athens has stimulated the city's development by improving its infrastructure for the Olympic games.

At Athens we came up with the idea of using a single graphics folder per day. We have folders for each day, one per day for the 10 days leading up to the games and one folder for each of the 17 days of the games. This means everyone, including all the audio guys, knows where to drop their work.

It's nothing to eat in one county, go to school in Athens and live in another county.

For Athens and Boston, I had really prepared for tough conditions, whereas here you can just prepare to run the marathon at your pace,

David Greene

It's something that would kind of keep me in touch with Athens, ... I met so many people there, and Athens has been so good to me. So it's good to have something like that so when you come back, it's a good excuse to go to Athens.

Everybody is talking about Joe T like he's a true freshman coming in straight out of Athens Academy. He's probably going to be the most well-prepared quarterback in the history of Georgia football.

Otto Rehhagel

What happened here is that the Greek team wrote soccer history. I hope this reverberates in Greece. I hope when we get into Athens on Monday, there will be incredible scenes.

Sonya Thomas put on one of the great athletic performances of the year. It was a triumph on par with the great feats witnessed in Athens just weeks ago, and it's going to take an extraordinary effort for her record to be broken.

Pretty much the defensive pressure of Athens got to us. We had a real difficult time getting into our offensive set. Give credit to Athens, they really did a good job defensively as a team.

That's like Larry Brown being cited before Congress for only bringing home a bronze from the Athens Olympics. Absurd.

Meb Keflezighi

A lot of people compare Athens and Boston. Athens was very smooth for me. It's a challenging course and I like challenges.

Paula Radcliffe

T his is totally different from Athens because I was on the start line with no injury worries and I felt 100% healthy. I knew I was in good shape and I just wanted to prove it.