Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durant

Rome remained great as long as she had enemies who forced her to unity, vision, and heroism. When she had overcome them all she flourished for a moment and then began to die.

Robert D. Kaplan

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

Richard Rodriguez

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

Samuel Johnson

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Wallace Stevens

It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.

William Cowper

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

Robert Pattinson

When I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.

Robert E. Howard

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

Saul Bellow

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Lennart Johansson

I think it's a good idea. They have the same culture, understand each other and travelling is easy between countries. So why not?

Rob Stutzman

has been linked to the gym culture for much of his life.

Stephen Rodrick

In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Maria Gilsenan

Here in Shanghai, it is such a drinking culture that people need to do something else.

Chris Byrne

Historically, toys have always reflected our culture at any particular point in time, ... Today we live in a high-tech world, where technology is being used by kids even at a very young age. Toymakers are responding to that trend.

Al Horford

I think the culture is always going to be a football culture, as we well know. But I think this definitely impacts the way people are going to start looking at us.

Bruce Hyde

Lake Champlain is the most under-marketed gem of a resource. First and foremost I want to use this as an opportunity to promote the history, culture and recreation of Lake Champlain.

Bill Daly

We take this seriously. The pro gambling culture is something we educate our players about extensively.

Ron Carter

I am from the planet of elegance.

Samuel Johnson

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Yves Saint Laurent

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

Philippe Starck

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.

Lord Chesterfield

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Diana Vreeland

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Thomas de Quincey

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

Mason Cooley

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

Jean Cocteau

Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.