Top 38 Up Pompeii Quotes
#1. 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
#3. But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
Bastille Pompeii
#4. You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.
Chad Harbach
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. POMPEII Note the ruts in roadway worn by chariot wheels.
H.G.Wells
#8. Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.
Terry Pratchett
#9. 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.
#11. 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
#12. (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
#13. A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE WITHOUT ANY ARTICULATION IS A DEAD EXPERIENCE
John Baldessari
#14. Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must.
Alex Faickney Osborn
#15. Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?
Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL
Jacqueline LaTourrette
#16. morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal;
Charles Dickens
#17. Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.
Seth Godin
#18. People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)
Robert Harris
#20. it was at Pompeii, nonetheless, that archaeology was born. It was to come of age in Egypt. Once
Elizabeth Payne
#21. 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
#23. I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.
Mona Simpson
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.
Robin Williams
#28. I think the key to working with my husband is that collaboration in comedy is best.
Casey Wilson
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. I think when I was 12, when, like, 'Titanic' and 'Romeo + Juliet' came out, my friends and I made our own Leonardo DiCaprio fan club. I definitely had a thing for him.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Husband and wife both are works together as two wheels in a vehicle. Here is equality between both.
Kusum Manjeshri
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.
Marc Morial
