Rome Quotes - Page 17

• If you are a writer and you are in Rome you will have a specific connection to it, then perhaps you will go to Sweden and you will have a different connection and it will be a very different experience.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Different Experiences, Connections, Sweden

  Interview with Munem Wasif, www.chobimela.org. November 24, 2014.

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• The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

  Edward Gibbon

  People, History, Religion

  The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ch. 2 (1776 - 1788)

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• But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Creativity, People

  "Do All Of Us Possess Genius?". Interview with Alison Stewart, www.npr.org. May 25, 2012.

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• I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

  Robert De Niro

  New York, Cities, Nyc

  "Robert De Niro: the ultimate viewing guide" by Angie Errigo, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Strong, New York, Circles

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• My historical reading of the situation is that these great monolithic empires developed, Rome, Turkey, and so forth, and they always break down when enough people, and it's always the young, the creative, and minority groups drop out and go back to a tribal form.

  Timothy Leary

  Reading, Turkeys, People

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• In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.

  Richard Halverson

  Philosophy, Moving, Men

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• Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Meditation, Harmony, Tragic

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• The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a privilege it is to be even a beggar in Rome!

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Lying, Dirty, Clothes

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• Animation had been used only for things like King Kong and the destruction of cities, which was very popular in the 1950s. I got tired of destroying cities. I destroyed New York, I destroyed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, Rome, and Washington. I was looking for a new outlet, and I came across the Sinbad legends.

  Ray Harryhausen

  Kings, New York, Tired

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Women, Bed, Choir

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• Rome ... seems to me the place in the world where one can best dispense with happiness.

  Fanny Kemble

  Happiness, World, Seems

  Fanny Kemble (1891). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters”

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

  Robert E. Howard

  Peachy

  Letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, January 14, 1926.

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• If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.

  Hans Kung

  Jesus, Father, Fighting

  Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.

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• The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed after this war, which spends in one month more than nations earned before in yearsthere is no more security in our time than in those of the Reformation or the fall of Rome.

  Stefan Zweig

  War, Fall, Two

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• Books are special, books are the way we talk to generations that have not turned up yet. The fact that we can actually, essentially communicate with the people in ancient Egypt, people in Rome and Greece, people in ancient Britain, people in New York in the 1920s who can communicate to us and change the way we think, and change the things that we believe. I think that books are special. Books are sacred. And I think that when you are selling books, you have to remember that in all the profits and loss, in all of that, you are treading on sacred ground.

  Neil Gaiman

  New York, Believe, Book

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• The first (barbers) that entered Italy came out of Sicily and it was in the 454 yeare after the foundation of Rome. Brought in they were by P. Ticinius Mena as Verra doth report for before that time they never cut their hair. The first that was shaven every day was Scipio Africanus, and after cometh Augustus the Emperor who evermore used the razor.

  Pliny the Elder

  Cutting, Hair, Foundation

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 57, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter LIX. Holland's translation, 1922.

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• 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!

  William C. Bryant

  Voice, Rivers, Solitude

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• In Rome people spend most of their time having lunch. And they do it very well - Rome is unquestionably the lunch capital of the world.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Lunch, People, World

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.82, Vintage

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• The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Country, Paris, People

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• 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.

  Washington Irving

  Purple, Waste, Resistance

  Washington Irving (1983). “History, Tales, and Sketches”, p.1011, Library of America

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• In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.

  George William Curtis

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  George William Curtis (1856). “Works: Lotus-eating”, p.185

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• Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Art, Cities, Historical

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.

  Richard Harris

  Dream, Fragile

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