Cleopatra Quote by Carmen Boullosa Download Open image “The name Cleopatra wakens the world to life.” — Carmen Boullosa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cleopatra Life Names World
I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
“Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of the world… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Cleopatra. Think you there was or might be such a man As this I dreamt of? Dolabella. Gentle madam, no. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“A human is the one, who would give up a thousand Cleopatras to be with the person he or she loves.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but… — Robert Greene Copy Share
An epic subject requires a writer of epic skill and scope, and we have a perfect pairing in Cleopatra and Stacy Schiff. Absorbing and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as… — Evan Thomas Copy Share Image
“…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Her eye was aflame, and she spoke like Cleopatra telling an Ethiopian slave where he got off.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“And then he says that Thibaut always referred to Twin Peaks as Cleopatra’s Breasts.” — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Even though language has its richness the relationship between language and the writer is always like a stone and you have to make the… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
“The young Efrainite poets got around the city on foot, or by bus ...Some of the Efrainites were belligerent and used to turn up… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds of feelings,… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
“There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. (Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare.)” — Sarah Stuart Copy Share Image
What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know. — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
“Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love; we cannot call her winds and waters, sighs and tears; they… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
“Not romantic," she disagreed. "To me it would be romantic if Antony properly fell on his sword and kicked the bucket and Cleopatra escaped… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
“How DARE you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar ! Rape, murder,… — sidney buchman Copy Share Image
“Princess," he said, spreading his arms in a shrug, "how does such a little thing like you get such a big temper?" I held… — Kristiana Gregory Copy Share Image
You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
