In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The French are never happy coming to London; this is an ancient and comforting enmity. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence. — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
The rainbow bursts like magic on mine eyes! In hues of ancient promise there imprest... — Charles Tennyson Turner Copy Share Image
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago,… — William C. Bryant 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
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was… — John Keats Copy Share Image
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, capital has unleashed myriad objects upon us, in their manifold horror and sparkling splendor. Two hundred years of idealism, two hundred… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will,… — Theodore M. Burton Copy Share Image
The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is… — Indra Sinha Copy Share Image
I think the greatest truths, the ones that you find in every culture that has any sort of history of reflection of… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
My first car was kind of sad. My first car was when my parents had completely worn out their Toyota Corolla that… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we must stress Chinese history and geography… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Confidentiality is an ancient and well-warranted social value. — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
