Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

William Cowper

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

Saul Bellow

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

Saint Augustine

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity,

Yoweri Museveni

I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.

Washington Irving

When the Gauls laid waste Rome, they found the senators clothed in their robes, and seated in stern tranquillity in their curule chairs; in this manner they suffered death without resistance or supplication. Such conduct was in them applauded as noble and magnanimous; in the hapless Indians it was reviled as both obstinate and sullen. How truly are we the dupes of show and circumstances! How different is virtue, clothed in purple and enthroned in state, from virtue, naked and destitute, and perishing obscurely in a wilderness.

William C. Bryant

Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice Is that thou utterest while all else is still-- The ancient voice that, centuries ago, Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!

Walter Scott

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

Joseph Addison

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

Kesha

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

Ogden Nash

But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them, With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to people they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.

Epictetus

Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown.

Ozzy Osbourne

We were always told we were one step behind Deep Purple, one step behind Led Zeppelin, one step behind everybody. Our manager didn't want to let us know how popular we were. It's only after we did Ozzfest that people started telling me stuff. I thought they were taking the piss. People would come up to me and go, "Respect.

Kobe Bryant

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

Lewis Black

Ninety percent of a shirt that not only was bright purple and green but with a design on it that, if you moved too quickly, might cause a seizure in an unsuspecting onlooker.

Jimmy Fallon

President Obama is in China now for an economic summit in Beijing. The president wore a traditional purple silk shirt along with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. That's after they taught Putin how to put a shirt ON.

Jon Lord

Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

Emily Dickinson

Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear of victory, As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear.

Richard P. Feynman

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Richelle Mead

Every relationship is different. Everyone loves differently.

Richelle Mead

It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could.

Russell Brand

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

Rose McIver

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

Troye Sivan

I realize that I'm kind of a different person than I thought I was.

William Sadler

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

William Safire

The remarkable legion of the unremarked, whose individual opinions are not colorful or different enough to make news, but whose collective opinion, when crystallized, can make history.

William Gibson

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.