Renaissance man, woman, either way it's a worthy pursuit! Like the painters of Emilia's day, I was raised in an environment that… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I do feel we live through what I like to call The 2nd Renaissance, but although I foresee a widespread return to… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Back when I was 16, when I should have been doing normal high school things, I availed myself of my brand new… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes,… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
A renaissance in cellular biology has recently revealed the molecular mechanisms by which thoughts and perceptions directly influence gene activity and cell… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and… — Moby Copy Share Image
There is a fascination with violence and power in all modernism, and I sort of saw classic modernism as being more similar… — John Currin Copy Share Image
The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
Right now, scientists are in exactly the same position as Renaissance painters, commissioned to make the portrait the patron wants done, And… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the… — Brian Stock Copy Share Image
If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that… — Grimes Copy Share Image
I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
People think my career started when I sent that tape to Renaissance. I’d actually been working hard for seven years before I… — John Digweed Copy Share Image
“This much should be clear by now: the term 'renaissance' can only remain fruitful and demanding as long as it refers to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of… — Sylvan Barnet Copy Share Image
Nobody I know is as committed to excellence as Donald Palmisano. He symbolizes everything that is good about our country. If Horatio… — Paul Galanti Copy Share Image
Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, man's dispute with madness was dramatic debate in which he confronted the secret powers of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
A glorious place, a glorious age, I tell you! A very Neon renaissance - And the myths that actually touched you at… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
No one spoke in terms of children's literature, as opposed to adult literature, until around the 1940s. It wasn't categorised much before… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance,… — Ralph Borsodi Copy Share Image
I felt that needed to be addressed: the idea that anything a man tries to do properly or thoroughly is dismissed as… — James May Copy Share Image
“Sure, in this age of continuous updates and always-on technologies, hitting refresh may sound quaint, but still when it’s done right, when… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak,… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles… — Werner Herzog 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