I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators, head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
“It seems to me,” her father finally said with a sigh, “that Emperor Rat is one of those things that we’re supposed… — Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen Copy Share Image
Lee Marvin was just the best. Just the best. And that was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until he died.… — Keith Carradine Copy Share Image
In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome.… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“He would go east and fight the emperor’s wars, carrying out the bloody business of larger countries eating up the littler ones.… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“That valiant Macedonian supreme commander and emperor Alexander, in his thirties and the future Indian captain-general and emperor Chandragupta just on the… — Savarkar Copy Share Image
Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion… — George W Truett Copy Share Image
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“Vhalla was there the moment her prince became her Emperor. He turned back to her helplessly. For the first time in the… — Elise Kova Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Back in the days when gladiators hacked away at each other, there was always the man who decided whether the defeated should… — Gary Corby Copy Share Image
News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore,” Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators… — Richard Turner Copy Share Image
In reality, a person questioning the existence of the Satanic conspiracy is merely pointing out that the emperor is wearing no clothes.… — Michael A. Stackpole Copy Share Image
In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I know this is weird... I am a Black woman and I am not mixed with any Asian blood or Chinese blood… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
Either you are drowned in the past or you are drowned in the future. That's why you are not. That's why you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think Malcolm Forbes got kicked out of our school and [Ethiopian Emperor] Hallie Selassie's grandkids went there, too. Because of security… — Malaak Shabazz Copy Share Image
“For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How humbly it bows its head as the emperor is dragged… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
When I went to see Valentino in Rome, I discovered 120 women in these ateliers who sew $100,000 dresses. There are no… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
“Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If brains have brought us to what we are in now, I think it is time to allow our hearts to speak.… — Rosika Schwimmer Copy Share Image
“When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet,… — John Jackson Miller Copy Share Image
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility.… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there… — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Being a kind, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother. Commanding an army is little more than… — Billy Sunday Copy Share Image
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Lord Karasumaru considered it a grave mistake on the part of the gods to have made a man like himself a nobleman.… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
![“Lee Marvin was just the best. Just the best. And that was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until he died. And the same with Ernie Borgnine. You know, I went up there and did that movie [Emperor Of The North] with those guys, and I actually was with Ernie the night that he died.” quote by Keith Carradine](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d4f/keith-carradine-15039_died_lee-marvin-was-just-the-best-just-the-be_2701055.png)
![“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs…” quote by Blaise Pascal](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eb5/blaise-pascal-167_belief_if-they-plato-and-aristotle-wrote-about_343108.jpg)
![“Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is…” quote by Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a12/randall-jarrell-3811_always-crying_both-in-verse-and-in-prose-karl-shapiro_1665278.png)
![“I think Malcolm Forbes got kicked out of our school and [Ethiopian Emperor] Hallie Selassie's grandkids went there, too. Because of security reasons you have to go to those schools. We had a privileged life, fine, but also very secure. So I think it's great where the [Barack] Obama daughters are…” quote by Malaak Shabazz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2c4/malaak-shabazz-35523_barack_i-think-malcolm-forbes-got-kicked-out-of_2694664.jpg)
![“The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a majority of a popular assembly; an aristocratic council; or oligarchical junto and a single emperor - equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect…” quote by John Adams](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5c7/john-adams-529_absolute-power_the-fundamental-article-of-my-political_2130305.jpg)
