Renaissance Quotes · Page 3

“A mind so dark it made one wonder if the Renaissance had ever really taken place.”

— John Berryman

Eric Pickles unleashed a renaissance of bold, local leadership.

— Nick Boles

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now.

— Dennis Lehane

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

— Matteo Salvini

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person.

— Ronnie Montrose

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

— Salvador Dali

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

— Thomas Reid

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

— Anonymous

“I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong,…

— Veronica Roth

If you see a Renaissance body, this is completely ugly in this time. Everybody has to be skinny. But the Renaissance body…

— Marina Abramovic

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal…

— E. Merrill Root

There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.

— John F. Kerry

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

— Debbie Allen

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

— Sandra Cisneros

December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.

— Alberto Villoldo

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's…

— Ronan Farrow

My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the…

— Malcolm X

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

My greatest role model is my mom because she's a Renaissance woman. She has had many careers over the course of her…

— Beanie Feldstein

The classic theology of my tradition comes from the French Renaissance. [William] Shakespeare was born in 1564, the year [John] Calvin died,…

— Marilynne Robinson

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like…

— Tim O'Reilly

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over…

— Frederick Lenz

I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying…

— Patti Smith

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should…

— Os Guinness

“I did think about a Ph.D. in computer science, but this is a time in industry where theory and practice are coming…

— Allegra Goodman

I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for…

— Miguel Indurain

“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its…

— Peter Frankopan

“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious…

— Jeffrey Tayler

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can…

— Rick Perry

All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The…

— Anonymous

“Via the mediation of the Enlightenment, this movement had changed from a hobby among a tiny literate elite and their secretaries, an…

— Peter Sloterdijk

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

— Michel de Montaigne

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.

— Frank Bruno

I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.

— Nan Goldin

Traveling in India gives you a chance to observe a renaissance.

— Marie Brenner

“Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.”

— Julianne Davidow

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

— Eric Hoffer

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

— John Fowles

Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.

— Camille Paglia