A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a Renaissance man. Or you could say I have a short attention span. I'm always thinking, what shall… — David Essex Copy Share Image
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism,… — Murad Wilfried Hofmann Copy Share Image
Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In some ways, it's better that Obama got elected than McCain. I'd rather be stabbed in the chest with an Obama steak… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
“Renaissance,” Alice’s husband said casually. “A rebirth? Like you guys have been able to start again now that you’re together?” Cali shook… — Zannie Adams Copy Share Image
There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal… — E. Merrill Root Copy Share Image
There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values. — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
“We've never heard About a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have lived In history can't measure up In… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries. — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — David Sylvester Copy Share Image
Going into 'Da Vinci's Demons' I didn't know anything about renaissance music and going into 'Black Sails,' I didn't know about sea… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
I only know about a few things, but I am quite good at bluffing. There are a whole range of subjects, including… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
