"The spread of Viking bling is a good……" — Neil MacGregor

"The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture."

— Neil MacGregor

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23 Quotes by Neil MacGregor

Neil MacGregor has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

From the point where our ancestors started making tools, people have been unable to survive without the things they make;…
Objects are better than text at conveying narrative
For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects…
In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of…
[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different…
The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have…
For the Greeks, there was no single canonical version of creation, but a number of overlapping stories.
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science,…
It is a standing source of astonishment and amusement to visitors that the British Museum has so few British things…
Thanks to the unprecedented reach of British navigation, London in the early 18th century was not just the emporium of…
Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the…
For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure…

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More Bling Quotes

This quote is filed under Bling Quotes, one of 37 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to… — Mary J. Blige
It is entirely possible to create something totally artificial within the realms of rock and roll. — David Bowie
Whatever; bling always has something to hide. — Grace Jones
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. — John Donne
Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or… — Louis Kronenberger
Be content to be what you are; shiny stones and silver bangles only make you look what you really are. — Tiny Tim
I remember being at Greenblatt's on Sunset, and some guy just walked straight up to me, and he had some… — Yvonne Strahovski
The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling. — Tim Reid
I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot — Michael Vartan
I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm… — Taissa Farmiga
It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling. — Serena Williams
To me, travel is more valuable than any stupid piece of bling money can buy — Raquel Cepeda

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