Roman Era Quotes

#1. Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

Edward Gibbon

#2. A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Roman Jakobson

#3. We are God's holy temple. The Spirit dwells in us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. In fact, the most scientific and valid evidence points to an origin for Jesus Christ as mythical and fabulous as that of the Egyptian, Greek and Roman gods of the same general era and area.

D.M. Murdock

#5. It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

#6. I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.

J. B. Smoove

#7. A hysterical young woman with flowing brown hair is also called from 4, but she's quickly replaced by a volunteer, an eighty-year-old woman who needs a cane to walk to the stage.

Suzanne Collins

#8. There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

Boyd K. Packer

#9. Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other

Haruki Murakami

#10. People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

Susan Jacoby

#11. And my coffee is Blue Mountain and I drink it black, which is unusual for a teenage girl, but it's definitely the way good coffee should be drunk if you have any respect for the bitter beans.

Ruth Ozeki

#12. All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

Al Capone

#13. I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air.

Amy Poehler

#14. The cat would eate fish, and would not wet her feete.

John Heywood

#15. Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

#16. A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating.

Azzedine Alaia

#17. Speak success into existence.

Bianca Frazier