Famous Surviving Quotes

#1. Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, / Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? / That we by tracing magic lines are taught, / How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?

Marshall McLuhan

#2. If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice saved, there would be enough there to fill a full lifetime with delight. Venice, with all its complexity and variety, is in itself the greatest surviving work of art in the world.

Evelyn Waugh

#3. If anything in nature was as beautiful as it was deadly, it was she.

Randy C. Dockens

#4. Music is playing. We will, we will rock you. But no one will be rocked here. There will be no revolution. People are too comfortable, and comfort is the revolutionaries' worst enemy.

Eric Weiner

#5. I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.

Richard Wagner

#6. At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.

P.C. Cast

#7. Everest is completely out of control. It's like crack.

Aaron Huey

#8. When she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire

William Faulkner

#9. Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in 'Groundhog Day'

Marco Rubio

#10. The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#11. We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Madeleine Albright

#12. If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

Peter Arnett

#13. What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!

Dada Bhagwan