It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!”… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It is not “just beer,” it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily… — Stephen Beaumont Copy Share Image
When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find… — Henry Norris Russell Copy Share Image
Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The life of the ancient Greeks and Romans has profoundly influenced our own, and yet the ways in which they affect us… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It may seem absurd to believe that a 'primitive' culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our… — Helena Norberg-Hodge Copy Share Image
We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
And, in the future, while the dumb show of bohemianism plays itself out in the cookie cutter shape of the politically correct… — Adam Parfrey Copy Share Image
[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the winds of… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there.… — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
“Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them… — Mary Ann Tolbert Copy Share Image
Sound is one of the best most powerful tools. All the ancient traditions confirm that in the beginning was the word. Sound… — MC Yogi Copy Share Image
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient… — Laurel Burch Copy Share Image
Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead… — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image
What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience. . . . Indeed, as is well known,… — Edd Doerr Copy Share Image
Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
(The Tao) is always present and always available. . . . If you are willing to be lived by it, you will… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
In Atlantis, children who were spiritually evolved from meditative practices in their previous lives were brought to the Mystery School for training… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by… — John Muir Copy Share Image
This ancient practice of the Rudrabhishekam, with the chanting of mantras, has been happening since thousands of years. It creates such a… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot… — Victoria de los Angeles Copy Share Image
In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image