Top 42 Quotes About Marco Polo

#1. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Oscar Wilde

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#2. When people hear the name 'Marco Polo,' they tend to think of a map or explorer. Very few people know the true story of Marco Polo, and it's so much more compelling and exciting than the mythology.

John Fusco

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#3. Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

Gary Jennings

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#4. I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

Gianni Versace

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#5. Marco Polo has been kind of buried under this cloud of rather banal historical dust, when the true story is so much more exciting.

John Fusco

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#6. Without stones there is no arch.

Marco Polo

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#7. I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

Mark Bradford

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#8. The journey of Marco Polo is the hero's journey, one that all cultures across the globe can relate to.

John Fusco

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#9. Marco Polo dictated his Travels in French,

Barbara W. Tuchman

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#10. My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

Marco Polo

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#11. We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice ... Kazakhstan ... into the jungles of Malaysia.

John Fusco

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#12. I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

Benedict Wong

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#13. The law which their prophet Mohamed has given to muslims is that any harm done to any one who does not accept their law and any appropriation of his goods, is no sin at all.

Marco Polo

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#14. There was a time when a book could be sold purely because its author had been to distant climes and had returned to tell of the exotic sights he had seen. That author was Marco Polo, and the time was the thirteenth century.

Howard Mittelmark

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#15. I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

John Fusco

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#16. It all goes back to 'Wow, I never knew this about Marco Polo.' This is an incredible story and an incredible character, and such a rich world of Mongolian and Chinese culture.

John Fusco

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#17. One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

Marco Polo

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#18. In 2007, I did a horseback trip across part of central Mongolia with my 13-year-old son - we encountered Marco Polo at all these historical places where Mongolian nomads would reference his accounts and his relationship with Kublai Khan.

John Fusco

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#19. Quit playing Marco Polo with my ass, Christopher Columbus. This isn't an exploration, so you aren't putting your ding dong in this donut hole

B.B. Reid

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#20. Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Romesh Gunesekera

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#21. Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.

Marco Polo

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#22. The personal appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you.

Marco Polo

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#23. The true sweetness of wine is one flavor

Marco Polo

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#24. I have not told the half of what I saw.

Marco Polo

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#25. When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.

Gary Jennings

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#26. to my father's amazement, was an ancient but clearly recognizable painting of Marco Polo, who must have visited Huai'an during his thirteenth-century travels about China. The priest asked my father to donate a picture of Jesus for his collection, and, after thinking about it, Daddy did.

Katherine Paterson

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#27. Because it did used to be cool, super-cool, in fact - she was our Magellan, our Marco Polo, one of the wayward Walker women whose restless boundless spirit propels her from place to place, love to love, moment to unpredictable moment.

Jandy Nelson

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#28. I have not told half of what I saw.

Marco Polo

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#29. I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Marco Polo

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#30. There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a discovery.

Tom Robbins

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#31. At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.

John Fusco

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#32. The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

Marco Polo

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#33. In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

Zhu Zhu

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#34. I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.

John Fusco

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#35. Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it.

Benedict Wong

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#36. If you put together all the Christians in the world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole of these Christians, - aye, and throw in the Saracens to boot, - would not have such power, or be able to do so much as this Kublai, who is Lord of all the Tartars in the world.

Marco Polo

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#37. Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back Polo!

Elizabeth Gilbert

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#38. And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.

Marco Polo

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#39. 'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.

Ted Sarandos

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#40. It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.

John Fusco

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#41. He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.

John Fusco

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#42. I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

John Fusco

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