We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn't changed… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“Ignosi bound the diadem upon his brows. Then advancing, he placed his foot upon the broad chest of his headless foe and… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“... The Sirens of Titan …. … ‘That’s a funny name for a book,’ I said with a gulp. ‘Are those women… — Gavin Extence Copy Share Image
I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
“You like Nick a lot, don't you, Nora?" Dorothy asked. "He's an old Greek fool, but I'm used to him." "Charles isn't… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a joke, Rora said. Mujo wakes up one day, after a long night of drinking, and asks himself… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“LOOK, I’M ONLY IN THIS FOR THE PIZZA. The publisher was like, “Oh, you did such a great job writing about the… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had. It certainly changed me for… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I love how 'Game of Thrones' has resonated with so many people around the world. I feel like it has really tapped… — Richard Brake Copy Share Image
“I Have been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“There is an old Greek saying that men are tormented not by things themselves but by what they think about them. If… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Humanists were people who wanted to return to ideas found in old Greek and Latin writing of Greece and Rome, written many… — Michael Mullett Copy Share Image
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
