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Traveling in India gives you a chance to observe a renaissance. — Marie Brenner

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

And be grateful that you're a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what's between her ears. — Barbara Sher

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace. — Dag Hammarskjold

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. — George Santayana

Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plato has had the greatest influence. — Plato

her youth passed in renaissance glory — F Scott Fitzgerald

Our thoughts of literary renaissance should always center themselves on the removal of superstition, meanness, indignity and ignorance. — Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it. — Ritchie Blackmore

Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way. — Mark Rothko

People never know what's going on while it's happening. You think, during the Renaissance, people called it 'The Renaissance'? — Anne Meara

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. — Stanley Crouch

Warhol turned to photographs of stars, as the Renaissance turned to antiquities, to find images of gods. — David Sylvester

We are a family of professionals, especially doctors. Thanks to my father, I got exposed to a whole lot of things. I call him a Renaissance man. — Lillete Dubey

I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so. — Hermann Goring

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe. — Lauren Willig

Just as bad money drives out good, the broad, deep, inclusive renaissance mind is being driven out by the narrow, specialized, technical mind. — Dee Hock

PASSIONS are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; — Walter Raleigh

In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters. — John Fowles

In the Renaissance world of arranged marriages, there were no romantic proposals on bended knee - only notaries and contracts. — Elizabeth Lev

There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values. — John F. Kerry

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power. — Will Durant

I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. — Anthony Mackie

I can't help but think that the way we punctuate now is the right way - that we are living in a punctuation renaissance. — Mary Norris

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time. — Marsilio Ficino

December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries. — Alberto Villoldo

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance. — Ayn Rand

How seldom we notice rooftops; how easily our eyes are drawn to the more flamboyant attractions of a Roman temple or Renaissance church. — Alain De Botton

The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history. — Eric Flint

...Michelangelo transformed both the practice of art and our conception of the artist's role in society. — Miles J. Unger

We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect. — Daniel Libeskind

Giovanni's behavior had changed dramatically since he had opened that crate. He felt haunted. [After meeting the portrait of Botticelli's Bastard] — Stephen Maitland-Lewis

When you get a new worldview you get a new world. It's like the shift from medieval Christianity to the Renaissance and enlightenment. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. — Hu Shih

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence. — Julianne Davidow

A mind so dark it made one wonder if the Renaissance had ever really taken place. — John Berryman

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me. — Veronica Roth

First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we're entering the Age of the Ass. — Jean-Luc Godard

In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person. — Ronnie Montrose

It's a Renaissance, or put more simply, some you win, some you lose — Des Lynam

The pride taken by the Italians in their gifted women is among the most important facts in the history of their Renaissance. — Walter Shaw Sparrow

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. — Steven Wright

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry. — Herschel Walker

Seance to renaissance. So it begins — Marilyn Manson

I love television. I think we're in a renaissance of epic proportion in television now. — Dennis Lehane

Even in my most intimate moments with a man, I am alone. — Maggie Young

I do not imagine that many people in the fifteenth century ever wondered if they were living in the Italian Renaissance. — Carl Sagan

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis. — Salvador Dali

For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series. — Frank Bruno

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. — John Ruskin

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything. — Emma Watson

Yet any time I opened up a book of medieval art, or walked into the Renaissance galleries in a museum, I was confronted with Mary. — Holly Ordway

Implosion is no invention in the conventional sense, but rather the renaissance of ancient knowledge, lost over the course of time. — Viktor Schauberger

My favorite alphabet is 'R'. It has got: Revenge, Racism, Reincarnation, Renaissance, Revival and Resurgence. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

From 1940 to the present, the art world - and particularly Los Angeles - has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance. — Jeffrey Deitch

Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream. — Jean Toomer

Keep the progress, but recover the lost values. Technically, then he's talking about renaissance: the rebirth of old ideas in a new framework. — Douglas Rushkoff

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really. — Dalai Lama

You don't know Jay-Z's scedule. He's a renaissance man. — Aziz Ansari

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance? — Karen DeCrow

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? — Mark Twain

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor. — Eric Hoffer

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — Edward O. Wilson

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance. — Sandra Cisneros

It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner. — Matthew Fox

(forks did not appear until the late fourteenth century and weren't commonly used until the Renaissance). — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When we talk about the future, we often talk about it as damage and limitation exercise. That needn't be the case - it could be a Renaissance. — Mark Stevenson

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
-Leonardo Da Vinci — Oliver Bowden

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. — Arthur Erickson

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. — Walter Pater

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership . — Minoru Mori

We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never known the word of Christ. — Jean Baudrillard

Every generation", Aby Warburg mused long ago, "gets the Renaissance of Antiquity that it deserves. — Anonymous

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man. — George Takei

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. — Harold Macmillan

I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can. — Nolan Gerard Funk

the choices we make dictate the life we lead — Danny De Vito

Start small.
Start now.
Start everything.
And don't bother to finish any of it. — Barbara Sher

Jimmie would forever be the Renaissance humanist, bearing his faith and optimism like a white light inside a chalice. — James Lee Burke

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance. — Michael K. Simpson

In the darkness, fear my light. — Susann Cokal

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance. — Thomas Reid

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture. — Nick Antosca

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history. — Peter Weller

(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. — Barbara Kingsolver

We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance. — Carl Sagan

Too much knowing is misery. — Lorenzo De' Medici

Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress. — JoAnn Spears

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads. — James K. Morrow

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance. — Eric Weiner

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization. — P. J. O'Rourke

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person ... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court. — Erich Segal

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art. — Sigmar Polke

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life. — Stephen Greenblatt

Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to carry on that counts.
Winston Churchill — H.A. Corby

Whose little boy are you? — James Baldwin