Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school, so right… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
“Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse.… — Ron Miles 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
“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet… — Richard Rodriguez 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
I feel like it's almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it's important for Kim… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
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
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
RuPaul is someone who I really look up to because he's very much a renaissance man. — Alaska 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
From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance. — Jeffrey Deitch Copy Share Image
The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century… — Alfred de Musset 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
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. — Stanley Crouch 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
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
A lot of people who want to see the short story have a renaissance of readership - they tend to think of… — Lorin Stein 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
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
