Top 41 Quotes About Pompeii
#1. Adrian Maben came to us with the idea. And we just thought, "Well, why not?" I don't think any of us thought it would be as well received and last in people's minds for as long as it did. All credit to him. It's his idea [Pink Floyd at Pompeii] and it was great.
David Gilmour
#2. People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)
Robert Harris
#3. morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal;
Charles Dickens
#4. Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?
Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL
Jacqueline LaTourrette
#5. (E)ach generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup
if any.
Robert A. Heinlein
#6. We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.
David Gilmour
#8. Pompeii has nothing to teach us,
we know crack of volcanic fissure,
slow flow of terrible lava,
pressure on heart, lungs, the brain
about to burst its brittle case
(what the skull can endure!)
H.D.
#9. POMPEII Note the ruts in roadway worn by chariot wheels.
H.G.Wells
#10. Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.
Michael Martin Hammer
#11. Put a compass to paper and trace a circle. Then tell me which other country has such a concentration of places like Amalfi, Naples, Ischia, Procida, Sorrento, Positano, Pompeii, and Capri.
Diego Della Valle
#13. On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii ... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#14. Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth
the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#15. We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.
Marc Morial
#16. What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#17. Isn't this history, and aren't we a couple of ruins?
Is Carthage Pompeii? is the pillow the bed? is the sun
What glues our heads together? O midnight! O midnight!
Kenneth Koch
#18. The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii, like the metamorphosis of a nymph into a tree, has arrested us in an accustomed movement.
Marcel Proust
#19. Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
Robin Williams
#20. I never got my Pompeii," I said, low and even. "And you know I deserved every bit of it. But I'm not going to erupt all over you like I'm owed. Because I've already won. She's not fucking you tonight.
S. Walden
#21. it was at Pompeii, nonetheless, that archaeology was born. It was to come of age in Egypt. Once
Elizabeth Payne
#22. Straining to appear judicial, he turned toward the jury box. "The jurors shall disregard the last ... uh ... colloquy between the witness and defense counsel." Might as well ask the residents of Pompeii to ignore the volcano.
Paul Levine
#23. If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.
Deborah Davis
#24. We are not good at recognizing distant threats even if their probability is 100%. Society ignoring [peak oil] is like the people of Pompeii ignoring the rumblings below Vesuvius.
James R. Schlesinger
#25. People who go to Italy to look at ruins won't have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future.
William Manchester
#26. I used to feel a lot of guilt about having depression but then I realized that's a lot like feeling guilty for having brown hair.
Jenny Lawson
#27. The computer is your passport, not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.
Michael Nutter
#28. Books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
Gertrude Atherton
#29. Basically, I've always had a complex with the way I walk. I've not always been told I've got a bad walk, but someone's always commented on my walk.
Jamie Dornan
#31. When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
#32. This was the Big One. This was humiliation, disappointment, and dissolution all wrapped up together, tied with a big red bow of disgrace. The gift that keeps on giving.
Rachel Vincent
#33. But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
Bastille Pompeii
#34. Fascism is a lie, but an alluring one".
Ken Follett
#35. The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune.
Doris Lessing
#36. Why would someone request that their toenails be painted at a podiatrist's? Hot pink, even. We are not a salon. When I told the guy that, he got really irate and left.
Lindy Zart
#37. Are not they temperate from a kind of intemperance?
Plato
#38. Hyperbole is sometimes necessary to get at the truth. (It seems odd, doesn't it, that we have to lie to tell the truth better?)
Kate DiCamillo
#40. In the darkness you could hear the crying of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. Some prayed for help. Others wished for death. But still more imagined that there were no Gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness.
Pliny The Younger
#41. There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight ...
Julien Temple
