Top 26 Quotes About Byzantium
#1. I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.
Robert Gottlieb
#2. Take the tail of the female tuna - and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium.
Mark Kurlansky
#3. I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.
William Butler Yeats
#4. One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.
Edward Abbey
#5. We are not as the World sees us;
We are the Beloved of the Lord.
We are not as the Schedule pins us;
We are Immortal, Wing'd Creatures.
--St. Jabsha of Byzantium
Kate Betterton
#6. Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.
Mo Willems
#7. I am no slave. This is my city! "
Lada snorted. "And I am the queen of Byzantium." She turned on her heel, pulling Radu along.
"I will see you again!" the boy called. It was not a question, but a command.
"I will burn your city to the ground." Lada called back over her shoulder.
Kiersten White
#8. Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce, by the admission of the nobles of Byzantium within the orders of chivalry.
Joseph Jacobs
#9. I saw Byzantium in a dream and knew that I would die there.. and the golden towers of Byzantium would be my tomb ~ Aidan
Stephen R. Lawhead
#10. Petchenegs versus Byzantium, said Jimmy, one memorable day.
Margaret Atwood
#11. Before me floats an image, man or shade,
Shade more than man, more image than a shade;
For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth
May unwind the winding path;
A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
Breathless mouths may summon;
("Byzantium")
W.B.Yeats
#12. I struggle against photography. I struggle against the fact that it is silent, that it is just a piece of paper on the wall, often presented in a tedious white matt frame.
Michael Light
#13. I wanted to go. It seemed in the depths of my bruised soul I wanted nothing more. But something again held me.
Anne Rice
#14. Don't compare the insides of your marriage to the outsides of other people's marriages. Pictures don't tell the truth. Smiling faces on Christmas cards don't reveal the pain behind the scenes. While your struggles are very personal and often very painful, but they are not unique.
Jill Savage
#15. I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#16. Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present.
Igor Stravinsky
#17. My brother used to say some people have an "inferiority simplex." It's not that they're under the delusion that they're inferior; they actually are inferior and they secretly know it.
Gregory Heisler
#18. ...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.
Procopius Of Caesarea
#19. The thing about heavy-metal bars is that there are heavy-metal guys in every corner.
Jay Crownover
#20. A FASCINATING PBS SPECIAL on black holes: the suck and draw so strong it can gulp down light.
Lauren Groff
#21. Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.
Robert Holden
#22. Platonic England, house of solitudes,
rests in its laurels and its injured stone
Geoffrey Hill
#23. That you freed a possible criminal by trading away your brother to a warlock who looks like a gay sonic the Hedgehog and dresses like the childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Cassandra Clare
#24. Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
Cesare Lombroso
#25. Leif stared at me, utterly still, the way only vampires and pet rocks can manage.
Kevin Hearne
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