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I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years.
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
I was taught about slavery, but it was the ancient Egyptians. That's the closest I got to African history.
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
We've all got to come together, and we've got to protect what's left of our ancient forests on this planet.
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?
Ancient Rule of Twenty-one: if you do anything for twenty-one days in a row, it will be installed as a habit.
The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
I didn't have an identity. It was manufactured. My identity now? It was written on the wall by ancient forces.
In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
My grandpa was a geologist, and I always had this fascination with not only earth sciences but ancient history.
India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other's culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
I am one of many people documenting damage and looting at ancient sites from space - it is such a crucial tool.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.
This act is an ancient tale new told; And, in the last repeating, troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable.
The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.
There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).
Take the first A out of Abraham and put it at the end. You get Brahama. There's the ancient connection right there.
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.
I do the same series of five exercises 21 times each day - an ancient Tibetan practice that stimulates your chakras.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks.
Their experiments caused them to destabilize the structure of the continent and thus Atlantis sank beneath the waves.
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
The name 'Amazon' was not originally Greek; linguists believe it derived from the ancient Iranian word for 'warrior.'
Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’.
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?