Roman Quotes · Page 5

“Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.”

— Roman Payne

“Some men thought about the Roman Empire at least once a day. Krys was my Roman Empire.”

— Dannika Dark

To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

— Richard King

“Two blue men the size of football players walking through a store wrapped in Roman gladiator armor was bound to attract attention.”

— Missy Lyons

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York…

— John Lennon

“The birthing wolf, Her heart fed with tenderness, Gave forth from ripe brown nipples, Food to feed the universe.”

— Roman Payne

“soles occidere et redire possunt: nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux, nox est perpetua una dormienda. ”

— Catullus

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

— Steve Garvey

I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.

— Nancy Sinatra

I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've…

— Ronald D. Moore

“The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to…

— Roman Payne

“Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to…

— Roman Payne

I knew Roman Reigns when he used to come into the locker room with his father, holding his father's hand, barely out…

— Paul Heyman

After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a…

— Caroline Lawrence

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not…

— Cory Booker

There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the…

— Iain Sinclair

“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by…

— Thomas Jerome Baker

“His beard was nonexistent, except for a carefully trimmed goatee that met his mustache on both sides of his mouth. The overall…

— Ilona Andrews

“If the interest of a scientific expositor ought to be measured by the importance of the subject, I shall be applauded for…

— Etienne-Jules Marey

“About five meters ahead, Nico was swinging his black sword with one hand, holding the scepter of Diocletian aloft with the other.…

— Rick Riordan

The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon…

— Benjamin Robbins Curtis

I adore the classical pieces of our culture. The Greek and Roman are still inside and everywhere; it's impossible to disconnect.

— Alessandro Michele

I'm a practicing Roman Catholic, but you don't have to be Catholic, you don't have to be a Christian to work for…

— Erik Prince

In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.

— Mary Ritter Beard

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

I wasn't 'gifted' in the way that Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns or somebody like that is gifted, in that they got…

— Dean Ambrose

Schubert, Franck, and Liszt were all Roman Catholics who questioned or doubted or lived in different ways, and religion was certainly part…

— Stephen Hough

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps…

— Gore Vidal

The older I get and the harder it is to maintain a six pack, the more I wish I wore a tactical…

— Randy Orton

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

— Philip Sidney

“Spanish rain, A maiden’s dress, Apothecary pills And ancient thrills; Melancholy kills A girl’s caress.”

— Roman Payne

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

— Neil Gaiman

I've always been interested in Catholic iconography. My dad's from Naples and I was brought up in a Roman Catholic school.

— Robert Del Naja

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.

— Edward Gibbon

“If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good'…

— Roman Payne

Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.

— Mary Beard

There is a Mediterranean feel to my colouring. I have olive skin, brown eyes and my nose is definitely Gallic. It's extremely…

— Davina McCall

“I would have had to kill him, and Death, you know, keeps secrets better even than a guilty Roman.”

— Lew Wallace

Roman Reigns is, if not the best, one of the best performers in the world, hands down.

— Braun Strowman

When you write a roman a clef, there is a tendency on the part of the reader to wonder how much of…

— Dave Itzkoff