Top 100 Quotes About Antony
#1. Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted to our last breath.
Benedicta Ward
#3. Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive - in the past, that was mixed up with other illustrative duties, but that was still its central function that has been liberated in the art called modern.
Antony Gormley
#4. He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
Antony Jay
#5. I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.
Antony Beevor
#6. I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.
Antony Sher
#7. In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.
Antony Beevor
#8. If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
I'll set a bourn how far to be belov'd.
Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
Antony and Cleopatra - Act 1, Scene 1
William Shakespeare
#10. I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis
Antony Beevor
#11. But all they are asking is that we learn a little humility, a little respect for what we have.
Paul Antony Jones
#12. While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.
Edward Hall
#13. There are a lot of good things about string theory, and it's great that some people want to work on it.
Antony Garrett Lisi
#14. I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
Antony Sher
#15. Romance," said Antony. "A con so crazy that by the time the bullet's in the chamber, you don't know if you've taken someone or you've been taken.
Jeffrey Ford
#16. How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?
Antony Gormley
#17. Two of the first plays I saw after I arrived in Britain were 'King Lear' in Liverpool, and 'Antony and Cleopatra' at Stratford. One was produced with hardly a backdrop and the other with gigantic scene changes. I was impressed by what connected the two: the words and their life beyond the stage.
Romesh Gunesekera
#18. I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.
Antony Gormley
#20. 'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.
Robert Gottlieb
#21. The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.
Antony Sher
#22. The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.
Antony Gormley
#23. [Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are.
Antony Sher
#24. Hey, O Holy One, if the only people you want to read your book are the ones who already agree with everything in it, what was your point in the first place? Isn't the goal to reach non-believers?
Antony John
#25. I keep myself to myself pretty much. I'm not someone who gallivants around town looking for attention.
Antony Starr
#26. I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.
Antony Hegarty
#27. It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would we have behaved in the face of danger and when forced to make major moral choices.
Antony Beevor
#28. Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.
Antony Hewish
#29. When Caesar says, 'do this,' it is perform'd.
Mark Antony
#30. When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development.
Antony Starr
#31. People, when they get out of a long stretch of prison, are completely mal-adapted to society. Comfort for them is when there is a threat.
Antony Starr
#32. Abba Antony said, "Whatever you find in your heart to do in following God, that do, and remain within yourself in Him.
David Keller
#33. My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.
Antony Hegarty
#34. Public money should be spent on art but through individuals not committees.
Antony Gormley
#35. The words from The Microlight Pilot's Handbook hammered in my temples. 'It is better to be on the ground wishing to God you were in the air, than in the air wishing to God you were on the ground.
Antony Woodward
#36. When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.
Antony Beevor
#37. I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.
Antony Gormley
#38. The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.
Gabrielle Zevin
#39. It's a wonderful thing to make work that is unadorned either by context, framing or label, that can exist in the changing conditions of light, weather, wind.
Antony Gormley
#40. I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.
Delia Smith
#42. Everything that can happen, does. That's quantum mechanics. But this does not mean everything happens. The rest of physics is about describing what can happen and what can't.
Antony Garrett Lisi
#43. Western Australia is covered by granite, the largest single piece of Achaean rock that still lies on the surface of the, of, of the Earth, that's 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. It's one of the most ancient and intact bits of the Earth's crust.
Antony Gormley
#44. Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.
Antony Gormley
#45. I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
Antony Beevor
#46. Music. It's not about those things. It's about a feeling. It's about expressing yourself. It's about letting go.
Antony John
#47. My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.
Antony Gormley
#48. My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.
Antony Tudor
#49. Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.
Antony Hegarty
#50. The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.
Antony Beevor
#51. But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium?
William Dalrymple
#52. The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.
Antony Beevor
#53. We all like going to the dark side of things; we all like dipping into worlds that we don't know anything about, or hopefully don't know anything about. I think 'Banshee' gives people a chance to do that pretty safely because we all know there's a solid buffer between the show and reality.
Antony Starr
#55. You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.
Antony Jay
#56. I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
Antony Gormley
#57. I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world.
Antony Starr
#58. I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.
Antony Beevor
#59. So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind.
Antony Flew
#60. School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.
Antony Beevor
#61. We are not moving towards some kind of goal. We are at the goal, and it is changing with us. If art has any purpose, it is to open our eyes to that fact.
Antony Gormley
#62. The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
Antony Beevor
#63. I always like to look for adventure when I go away. I have gone on several horse adventures with my wife - from Guangxi we went up to the High Tibetan region. We also went along the Hurunui River on horseback in the South Island of New Zealand.
Antony Gormley
#64. Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.
Jodi Picoult
#65. Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'
William Shakespeare
#66. There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.
Antony Beevor
#67. I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.
Antony Gormley
#68. Why is an actor's unintentional giggling called a 'corpse'? It seems to me quite the opposite. It proves that he's very much alive, and can still tell how silly this all is: him dressed up as someone else speaking words written by a third party.
Antony Sher
#69. When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.
Antony Sher
#70. When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.
Antony Sher
#71. The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.
Antony Beevor
#72. Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
Antony Beevor
#73. I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.
Antony Sher
#74. What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman;
Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman;
Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman;
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!
Thomas Otway
#75. You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject.
Antony Flew
#76. Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.
Antony Sher
#77. A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.
Antony Sher
#78. I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.
Antony Starr
#79. This armchair strategist never possessed the qualities for true generalship, because he ignored practical problems.
Antony Beevor
#80. I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.
Antony Gormley
#81. By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a "superpower" built by American technology and skill.
Antony C. Sutton
#82. What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?
Antony Flew
#84. In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.
Antony Jay
#85. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
William Shakespeare
#87. I don't know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to.
Antony Starr
#88. It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.
Antony Gormley
#89. Away with the joint-stools, remove the
court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save
me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let
the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
Antony, and Potpan!
William Shakespeare
#90. Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
Antony Beevor
#91. I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
Antony Sher
#92. I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
Antony Hewish
#93. The Secret Teachings on Covert Activity: Even after you infiltrate someone's house, if you cannot know clearly what is going on inside, you should take appropriate measures to understand the situation.
Antony Cummins
#94. I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
Antony Gormley
#95. The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
Antony Beevor
#96. Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
Antony Beevor
#97. I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
Antony Gormley
#98. Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.
Antony C. Sutton
#99. It is as much the conversations between objects as between us and objects that make museums so valuable.
Antony Gormley
#100. 'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.
Antony Jay
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