I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Most of the great works of juvenile literature are subversive in one way or another: they express ideas and emotions not generally… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Obviously, what's happening in China right now is crucial, in the party congress, which as someone said has anointed a new emperor… — James R. Clapper Copy Share Image
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures… — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and… — Edward Grey Copy Share Image
Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
All right, beautiful. You've got me tied down to this stone table, and there's a knife in your hand that says you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Content is not just king, it is the emperor of all things electronic. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter. — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this… — Simon Rich Copy Share Image
Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea - and the tea is the emperor has no clothes! — RuPaul Copy Share Image
Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care… — Stephanie Zacharek Copy Share Image
“But I hated the Emperor of the Ke-Han with everything I had in me, for every man I'd lost and every friend… — Danielle Bennett Copy Share Image
When I went to see Valentino in Rome, I discovered 120 women in these ateliers who sew $100,000 dresses. There are no… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
