Quotes About Renaissance Man

#1. Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

Ronan Farrow

#2. I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

Anthony Mackie

#3. We are a family of professionals, especially doctors. Thanks to my father, I got exposed to a whole lot of things. I call him a Renaissance man.

Lillete Dubey

#4. It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

George Takei

#5. Every mode of violent death available to Renaissance man, including a lye pit, land mines, a trained falcon with envenom'd talons, is employed. It plays, as Metzger remarked later, like a Road Runner cartoon in blank verse

Thomas Pynchon

#6. Because my master was this renaissance man, I wasn't just learning a fighting style, I was learning how kung fu permeates all aspects of life, from eating to healthy living to mental state.

Daniel Wu

#7. I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

Hermann Goring

#8. The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

Moby

#9. I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.

Hermann Goring

#10. If I could have picked an era to have lived, I think I would've loved to have been one of Louis XIV's mistresses. They were so fantastic and aristocratic, and they had so much power. And he was such a renaissance man. I think I would've fit into that nicely.

Katie McGrath

#11. You don't know Jay-Z's scedule. He's a renaissance man.

Aziz Ansari

#12. I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.

Alexander McCall Smith

#13. Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

Salvador Dali

#14. I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

Polykarp Kusch

#15. Emeril is a one-in-a-million Renaissance man. In 2002, he established his foundation to support children's educational programs to inspire and mentor young people through culinary arts, school food and nutrition.

Robin Leach

#16. I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

Herschel Walker

#17. Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history.

Adolf Hitler

#18. I watched in silence as the parts of Matthew I knew and loved - the poet and the scientist, the warrior and the spy, the Renaissance prince and the father - fell away until only the darkest, most forbidding part of him remained. He was only the assassin now. But he was still the man I loved.

Deborah Harkness

#19. If you are "seeking first" his kingdom where you are, then where you are is where he has positioned you.

Andy Stanley

#20. The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#21. It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#22. I'm becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook.

Aeriel Miranda

#23. It's no coincidence that the man who contributed the most to the study of human anatomy, the Belgian Andreas Vesalius, was an avid proponent of do-it-yourself, get-your-fussy-Renaissance-shirt-dirty anatomical dissection.

Mary Roach

#24. Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

Norman Mailer

#25. I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

Giorgio Armani

#26. Year after year. "Please don't make me go [to school]" "You have to go," Kim would say. "It's a new school, make a new start." "Sticks and stones." from Chip. Words will only kill you.

Julie Anne Peters

#27. There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory ... everything else you say, think, or do is attendant to that function. There is nothing else for your soul to do, and nothing else your soul wants to do.

Neale Donald Walsch

#28. Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!"
"Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

Gordon Korman

#29. That this, right here, right now, is our life. It is not our parents' or our children's, not our husbands' or our wives'. It is not made more or less valuable by our job or how much we have in the bank. Our life is ours. It is the only one we will ever have. And we should love it.

Rob Lowe

#30. So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,
interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.

Peter Ackroyd

#31. Books are dead men talking.

George R R Martin

#32. the choices we make dictate the life we lead

Danny De Vito

#33. Even in my most intimate moments with a man, I am alone.

Maggie Young

#34. Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.

Sylvan Barnet

#35. The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.

William Francis Butler

#36. All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Henry Ward Beecher

#37. Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.

George Edward Woodberry

#38. Wickedness is too common in the world
for us to think much of why and wherefore.
It is more natural to ask about the rarer thing
and wonder why people sometimes do good.

Barry Unsworth

#39. The reason they don't make movies for adults and for people which are the largest bulge of the population is because they are not usually going to the movie the first weekend. They take a while to learn about it, probably word of mouth. It takes a lot of money to release a picture.

Rob Reiner