Cyrus Cylinder Quotes

#1. In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may well be the voice of this mute thing, the Cyrus cylinder.

Neil MacGregor

#2. A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

John Milton

#3. Work hard, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud.

Budd Schulberg

#4. From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.

Tom Perrotta

#5. After me there are no more jazz singers ... It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

Betty Carter

#6. After all, only the living needed food.

Peternelle Van Arsdale

#7. The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

Christina Applegate

#8. Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#9. Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Leonard Cohen