Moorish Quotes

#1. Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'

Malorie Blackman

#2. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

John Milton

#3. The first parts of Europe 'to emerge from barbarism,' Briffault says, were those most directly under the influence of 'Moorish' culture: the Spanish Marches of Catalonia, Provence, and Sicily.

S.E. Al-Djazairi

#4. That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Jim Woodring

#5. I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

Alexei Sayle

#6. In Marrakech, Arabian open-heartedness is served up with a generous dose of pan-African mysticism, a dollop of French savoir-vivre, and a garnish of Moorish grace. The vibe is irresistible to meaning-of-life seekers and international hipsters looking for a scene.

Vivian Swift

#7. Sex with Stanton is exhilarating, working beside him is a privilege. But loving him ... that just hurts.

Emma Chase

#8. You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Zig Ziglar

#9. Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.

John Dewey

#10. The hoverlanes were murder.

Troy Denning

#11. The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.

George Soros

#12. In chess the rules are fixed and the outcome is unpredictable, whereas in Putin's Russia the rules are unpredictable and the outcome is fixed.

Garry Kasparov

#13. One of the tragedies of the Bush administration is that we went back to business as usual, make a deal with the Democrats, let's all be friends in Washington philosophy.

Pete Du Pont

#14. So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

Norman McLaren

#15. There is much to be angry about in today's world, whether you are young or old, but certainly if you are young. Adultism reigns.

Adam Bucko

#16. Questions are infinitely superior to answers.

Dan Sullivan

#17. Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly.

Regina O'Melveny