Acropolis Athens Quotes

#1. Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Eleanora Duse

#2. We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

Donald Hall

#3. The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.

John Eliot

#4. Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too

Heinrich Heine

#5. study after study also directly links the intake of excess sugar to an increased risk for cancer, diabetes, gastrointestinal problems, eye diseases, osteoporosis, coronary heart disease, and other inflammatory diseases.

Colette Heimowitz

#6. God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

John Powell

#7. The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

Bobby Fischer

#8. I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.

Kristen Bell

#9. Following the rules for the past seventeen years has gotten me absolutely nowhere. I really need to do something about that.

Jessica Love

#10. Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently.

Marlee Matlin

#11. I think of painting as possessed by a structure ... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

Jules Olitski

#12. Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial city, interested in purely materialistic things. Today we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set foot in Corinth.

Harold Urey

#13. Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.

George Mikes

#14. Why don't we just expand ourselves into our perfect form, our perfect being?

Chogyam Trungpa