Vergil Quotes

#1. Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is one reason for his almost universal appeal. He changes each of his readers into a poet or an artist.

Gilbert Highet

#2. It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.

Henry Crew

#3. No one painted a more accurate picture of military depredation than Vergil. Inspired though he was by the Latin spirit and by his pride in Rome, he nevertheless glorified Rome's true mission as one of providing the world with the rules of peace and justice.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

#4. I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.

George A. Romero

#5. Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

James Brown

#6. Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil.

Pindar

#7. Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Benjamin Disraeli

#8. My definition of a sport is that it's a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#9. Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

Rainer Maria Rilke