Rome Quotes - Page 5

• Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Strong, Scripture, Pope

  Thomas Cranmer (1846). “Miscellaneous Writings and Letters of Thomas Cranmer”, p.63

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• The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.

  Joseph Addison

  Morning, Fate, Clouds

  Joseph Addison (1825). “Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.1

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• In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation. He answered: "In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." His answer lasted exactly fifteen seconds.

  Frederic Rzewski

  Music, Differences, Pockets

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• Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

  Giambattista Valli

  Holiday, Balance

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• I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

  Kate Voegele

  Moving, Artist, Impact

  "Kate Voegele 'went on journey for new LP'" by Jennifer Still, www.digitalspy.com. April 27, 2011.

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• The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

  Mary Douglas

  Church, Goes On, Leakage

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• But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Mother, Father, Men

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• It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

  Ned Rorem

  Evil, Perfect, Mediocrity

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• So you set out to travel to Rome... and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan... and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Journey, Istanbul, Japan

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• "He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

  Rick Riordan

  Ghost

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• Rome's just a city like anywhere else. A vastly overrated city, I'd say. It trades on belief just as Stratford trades on Shakespeare.

  Anthony Burgess

  Cities, Atheism, Belief

  1963 Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

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• Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

  Kirk Douglas

  Funny, Humorous, Italian

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• The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Party

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

  Nelson DeMille

  Islamic, Cities, Would Be

  "Yo, Terrorists: Make Our Day" by Michael Smerconish, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 01, 2006.

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• I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.

  Giambattista Valli

  Style, Bangs, Renaissance

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• What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy's it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Power, Volcanoes, Egypt

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of values”, Harcourt

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• Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Soul, Athens

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.32, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Even Rome cannot grant us a dispensation from death.

  Moliere

  Death, Grants

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• I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  School, Music In Schools, Conservatory

  "Diva Cecilia Bartoli". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. November 9, 1998.

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• Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.

  Maria Grazia Cucinotta

  Differences, People, Choices

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.

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• The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.

  Godfried Danneels

  Done, Problem, Easy

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• My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge.

  Bernie Taupin

  Mother, Father, War

  "Bernie Taupin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2, 2012.

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• Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Men, Thinking, Japan

  "Satires (satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the Church itself has dealt with the question.

  Julius Streicher

  Church, Murder, Court

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• I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!

  Taiye Selasi

  Beautiful, Home, Dark

  "Taiye Selasi: 'I'm very willing to follow my imagination'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.

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