The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Can't you see that I'm only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb?” — Petronius Copy Share Image
There is a certain ancient civility about tailors that is welcome - especially in modern London, which is now very much an… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Since I was 18 years old, I have taught the Bible. For the last fifteen or twenty years, I have taught every… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Nobody brings ancient history and archaeology to life like Adrienne Mayor. From the Russian steppes to China, and from Roman Egypt and… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas… — Mariko Mori Copy Share Image
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome. — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
To put it in a terminology that hearkens back to the more brutal age of ancient empires, the three grand imperatives of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a… — John F. Carlson Copy Share Image
Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
I think that age is irrelevant. We're all pretty much spiritual beings - I consider myself to be about eighty-five. I feel… — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
