Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We've never heard About a marvel quite so great, For all the heroes who have lived In history can't measure up In… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a Renaissance man. Or you could say I have a short attention span. I'm always thinking, what shall… — David Essex Copy Share Image
A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
Why is Kerala distinct from many other states? It is simply because of the glorious movements of reforms that brought renaissance to… — Pinarayi Vijayan Copy Share Image
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
People like to make fun of the fans who camp out but people have renaissance fairs; people do Civil War re-enactments; people… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and… — Horace 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
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
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth… — Walter Pater 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
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A… — Chinua Achebe 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
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots. Until a few decades ago, it… — Philip Ball Copy Share Image
“The medieval period based its scriptural exegesis upon the Vulgate translation of the Bible. There was no authorized version of this text,… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
As an artist, I identify with Sandro Botticelli. We know him as the man who painted Primavera and The Birth Of Venus.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr 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 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
Then came a moment of renaissance, I looked up - you again are there, A fleeting vision, the quintessence Of all that's… — Alexander Pushkin Copy Share Image
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed that by what it achieved. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Renaissance art. It's very direct. They're paintings that hit you in the face in the same immediate… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner. — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
I'm looking to evolve the concept of the new renaissance artist, taking the world by storm through the art of public display… — Perry Farrell Copy Share Image
The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of… — Alain LeRoy Locke Copy Share Image
The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe… — Jonathan Cain Copy Share Image
In the '60s, the Sunset Strip became insane. The sidewalks and the traffic were jammed. It was a renaissance. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Almost all European are before the Renaissance was created by people for whom the notion of art did not exist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership . — Minoru Mori 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
