I'm not into smoke-filled rooms. I don't have the time for…

“One lung, smaller, congested with rose smoke. The other, filled with a swarm of massive sentimentia.”

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

— Millicent Fenwick

“You are quite mad.” The smoke had filled her eyes with tears. “If you were better born, I’d marry you.”

— George R.R. Martin

I always liked the smell of a smoke-filled room. I think it's a good smell.

— Dennis Franz

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

— Millicent Fenwick

“The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.”

— Theodore H. White

Who created the byzantine empire? Who knows about the byzantine empire? Who established the byzantine empire? Who invented the byzantine empire? How many words…

— Brandon McCaw

I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of…

— Van Day Truex

The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not…

— William Henry Chamberlin

Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of…

— Garry Kasparov

I don't need a hard disk in my computer if I can get to the server faster... carrying around these non-connected computers is byzantine…

— Steve Jobs

“In this sense, Byzantine culture embodies the French historian Fernand Braudel's notion of the longue durée , the long term: that which survives the…

— Judith Herrin

In times like ours, where the growing complexity of life leaves us barely the time to read the newspapers, where the map of Europehas…

— Marcel Proust

To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event…

— Bernard Lewis

[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy.

— Edward Gibbon