Thracians Quotes

#1. Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves. Xenophanes

Christopher Hitchens

#2. I am lonely here sometimes. I'm like the gate, swinging in the breeze when I long for someone to just secure the latch and stop me from flailing about

Sarah Jio

#3. I don't like smiley pictures. A smile is a defense mechanism. It says, You can't have the real me but here's my smile. You get closer to the real person when they stop smiling.

Chris Killip

#4. The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.

Xenophanes

#5. Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.

Nicolas Cage

#6. Grocery shopping is so passe,' she said. I'm a modern woman. I dine out.

Lyn Benedict

#7. It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

Robert Longo

#8. But this child is not worth unraveling the world for. No one is.

Cameron Dokey

#9. It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly in other regions. Greek science was less an invention than a revival.

George Sarton

#10. We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

Paule Marshall

#11. To the Greeks [the Macedonians] were uncouth, semi-civilized barbarians. The Macedonians for their part despised the Greeks as effete, wishy-washy Greeklings. Both regarded the Thracians as scarcely capable of walking on their hind legs.

Nicholas Sekunda

#12. Men imagine gods to be born, and to have clothes and voices and shapes like theirs....Yea, the gods of the Ethiopians are black and flat-nosed, and the gods of the Thracians are red-haired and blue-eyed.

Michio Kaku

#13. I was a westerner in Iran, an Iranian in the West. I had no identity. I didn't even know anymore why I was living.

Marjane Satrapi

#14. I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

Hugh Leonard

#15. Ethiopians have gods with snub noses and black hair, Thracians gods with gray eyes and red hair,

Steven Weinberg

#16. What we have here is a conflict of visions of reality. The world as you see it right here, right now, is reality, regardless of what the scientists say it might be. That's the way John sees it. But the world as revealed by its scientific discoveries is also reality, regardless of how it may appear,

Robert M. Pirsig

#17. and it is only in loneliness, as Goethe says, that your perceptions put forth their flowers.

E.F. Benson

#18. You don't risk, you don't truly live.

Sonia M. Dubinsky

#19. I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

Edward Hirsch