The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Plato, and Cicero, just to name a few, all lived in pagan societies. Some of the greatest political and… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs… — Corey Smith Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the… — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field,… — Paul Alkazraji Copy Share Image
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden… — Gianluca Basile Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it… — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred… — Graham T. Allison Copy Share Image
As far as Athens is concerned, I also think about all those people who are trying to escape tax all the time.… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the… — Richie Sambora Copy Share Image
But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
