Ancient Quotations | Page 4

As long as there are innocent nickels to be made from the gullible, Python-starved public, I shall be out there dressed in silly frocks and singing filthy lyrics. I'm coming your way in search of ancient dollars.

As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.

The modern museum is much more flexible, open and transparent. There's a lightness here that is different than in ancient museums.

You often hear about ingredients being found, whether it is corn or ancient grains, but it is not too often that you hear about something as complex as noodles.

The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.

This goes back to ancient Greek drama. This has always been the role of fiction and entertainment to let us try these things out in a totally safe way. There's a perennial interest in these type of things. What they all have in common is bending the boundaries.

This is a cachet (of mummies), which means that the ancient Egyptians since the end of the New Kingdom began to take the mummies out of the tombs and hide them. We don't really know what kind of people are inside but I do believe they look royal. Maybe they are kings or queens or nobles.

They've been stuck at (Palm OS Garnet) for two-plus years. It's a pretty ancient operating system that can't handle multitasking, can't handle protected memory, and doesn't have great security, all the things that Cobalt was supposed to deliver.

They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis

They provide a wonderful glimpse into what Mars was like in the earliest part of its history, ... It was a violent place. It was a place where meteorite impacts were happening frequently. It was a place where there volcanic explosions happening frequently. Hot stuff was raining from the skies. There was water. When rocks were deposited, water would flow through those rocks and change their chemistry. This is a glimpse into the ancient past of Mars.

This papyrus is returning the most ancient geographic map of the classical world and helps write new pages of ancient history.

This man knew how to live. He was the authentic embodiment of a dream, ancient wanderer. He lived it. Talked it. Felt it. Fought it until at last the magic of his dream power became to us what it was to him.

There's an ancient mosaic called the Tree of Life. All religions are branches of one tree.

There's an ancient Chinese saying that goes something like this. All you need is Hawk love.

At first it was all a bit of a local curiosity. People would come to see these strange-looking birds that reminded them of ancient Egypt. But it's long since stopped being a joke. There are simply too many of them.

Ask a counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill, and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.

The most ancient anchors are laid to have been of stone, and sometimes of wood, to which a great quantity of lead was usually fixed.

ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.

It's emotional to see the appreciation and the dedication that these African people have when they learn what they can do themselves to correct an ancient problem that may have been there 10,000 years or more,

It's a very ancient saying, But a true and honest thought, That if you become a teacher, By your pupils you'll be taught

It's actually a very ancient antiviral pathway, because it is found in animals and plants. We're just making sure it's turned on.

For me, As You Like It is like an ancient tale, it's like the myth of human existence, really. The myth of courtship, of love and of marriage.

It looks as if an ancient group is gathered around a fire. There's an eclipse. It's rather mystical.

It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.

Its origins are ancient but it burgeons with brash modernity, and it lounges upon its delectable shore, halfway between the Israelis and the Syrians, in a posture that no such city, at such a latitude, in such a moment of history, has any reasonable excuse for assuming.

Despite an offer of nearly half a billion dollars, the company was unwilling to accept reasonable limits proposed by the federal and state governments on its ability to log ancient redwoods.

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

The age of trafficking in ancient art pieces is over,

Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to explore India. I will keep coming back. This is the closest I can get to home.

It's ancient history. It is what it is. It's been two years since that series. We've been looking forward to just the chance to get back in the playoffs and kind of put something together that we think could be fun and rewarding for everybody.

It's ancient history and we move on, ... From what I've heard, Freddy had a good day of training and he's looking forward to this weekend.

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.

They made a promise to protect species by doing surveys back in 1994 and they've known about it all along, but they've delayed and delayed and delayed and we are not going to let them get away with ignoring their responsibility to protect our ancient forests and the species that depend on them.

This is a very ancient structure, maybe the oldest in our area.

Evolutionarily, germ cells are one of the most ancient cell types, needed by every type of animal to reproduce. Their developmental program is very similar, whether we are talking fruit flies or humans. As a result, these findings could eventually help us understand and treat defects in germ cell development that lead to human infertility and disease.

The Met is such a powerful place for me because it's a natural connection between the ancient world and the modern world. And when you're dealing with ancient mythology, trying to put a modern spin on it, you really can't do much better than to call on the Met.

I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.

I'm very interested in the color of sound. And I'm very interested in the juxtaposition of different things, ethnic instruments juxtaposed with symphonic instruments, and I'm interested in the ancient and the modern. I don't know why, but it has always been something that's fascinated me, from when I first heard a symphony orchestra I wanted to know how those sounds were made.

In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.

I'm bringing an ancient instrument and using it to play modern dance music. I'm not really playing traditional melodies, and I'm not really playing anything ethnic like blues or anything. It's kind of future music really. It's not related to anything culturally. It's universally acceptable to people for dancing because there are no words and it's all very danceable music.

In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar.

He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world. . . . He is power, passion, self-will personified.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

By partnering with a major research university, this new program is able to offer the highest level of expertise and resources to train new professionals in the specialized areas of archaeological and ethnographic conservation. At the Getty Villa, students will benefit from close contact with scholars, curators, conservators and other specialized professionals. They will also have access to one of the finest collections of antiquities and to research resources focused on the ancient world, including a 20,000-volume library.

He told me that his salute belonged to ancient Rome.

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.

Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.

Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

Over the centuries we have transformed the ancient myths and folk tales and made them into the fabric of our lives. Consciously and unconsciously we weave the narratives of myth and folk tale into our daily existence.

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.

If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I could secretly live among them and learn their ancient ways, but I couldn't keep that kind of ruse up forever.

I caught on the old, ancient field, where we had kids leaning over the fence and rocks in the outfield. We had three rows of bleachers on one side and basically a lot of dirt and dust. We had a good time, but to look at what we played on in the '60s and what we're playing on now is a leap into the future.

I dreamed there would be Spring no more,/ That Nature's ancient power was lost.

I fear thee, ancient Mariner! / I fear thy skinny hand!

He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good.

GORGON, n.The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.

I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.

I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been a byword for top physical prowess and spectacular athletic performance.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

In English the expression 'ancient Greece' includes the meaning of 'finished,' whereas for us Greece goes on living, for better or for worse; it is in life, has not expired yet.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat

The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the pursuit of knowledge is part of what has kept our species so adaptive.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.

Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.

"What was that technique you were using on those bastards?" "An ancient form called kicking ass."

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.

Society works not because we have consciously invented it, but because it is an ancient product of our evolved predispositions. It is literally in our nature.

But that was the trouble with ancient artifacts - no one really knew what they did.

Ancient Rome was a violent place.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.