Maybe it's time to go back 2,000 years for a spiritual renaissance. If not, our days may be numbered and a terrible… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
We have a great obligation not only to look after our own interests, but to engage and to make sure that this… — Klaus Schwab Copy Share Image
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
My interest was in renaissance literature, looking at how men were writing for women in the 1590s, a time when many women… — Caroline Lucas Copy Share Image
My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of… — Hugh Everett III Copy Share Image
All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims - the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age we’re living in All cultures have… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
What's up?" Christian asked. "Need some hairstyling tips?" "Tips you stole from me? No thanks. But I hear you've got a really… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The whole Renaissance tradition is antipethic to me. The hard-and-fast rules of perspective which it succeeded in imposing on art were a… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia… — Ernest Nagel Copy Share Image
“I call it our English Renaissance because it is indeed a sort of new birth of the spirit of man, like the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry. — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
I'm either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that's the interesting thing about red hair: there's that fiery Renaissance connotation… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wouldn't have been any good if he'd stayed in Stratford. He had to go to London to be bathed in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity,… — Pierre Schaeffer Copy Share Image
We've been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age,… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — David Sylvester Copy Share Image
Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
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