Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus,"… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case -… — Mark Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The Renaissance established the dignity of man. The Industrial Revolution established the unity of nature. That” — Jacob Bronowski 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
I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to the rebirth of Christ... It's a word that's… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a renaissance woman, do as many things as I possibly can and hopefully do them well or… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization. — Matteo Salvini 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
The Renaissance… was based on a new idea of the importance of the individual. But this was a fragile foundation, because individuals… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“The Stoics define wisdom to be conducted by reason, and folly nothing else but the being hurried by passion, lest our life… — Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Copy Share Image
This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive… — Aberjhani 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
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
“Renaissance,” Alice’s husband said casually. “A rebirth? Like you guys have been able to start again now that you’re together?” Cali shook… — Zannie Adams Copy Share Image
On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
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
There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard… — Valeria Golino Copy Share Image
During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance? — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the… — Dennis Flanagan Copy Share Image
What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court. — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
I think 'renaissance woman' is a really fancy way of saying that I'm scatter-brained and non-commital. — Danielle Colby Copy Share Image
“Giovanni's behavior had changed dramatically since he had opened that crate. He felt haunted. [After meeting the portrait of Botticelli's Bastard]” — Stephen Maitland-Lewis Copy Share Image
Why alhough the Renaissance eventuall became a Euope wide intellectual and artistic movement, and why did it developed first and most distinctively… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will… — Ben Lovett Copy Share Image
I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image