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I know that atmosphere of the Parisian apartment building, with the twin menaces of the concierge on the ground floor and the landlord upstairs. — Roman Polanski

What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do. — Sanaya Roman

Oh, but I don't abide by your time frame, giant," Reyna said. "A Roman does not wait for death. She seeks it out, and meets it on her own terms. — Rick Riordan

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock. — Roman Payne

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond

You've been drinking. Let's go before I become the asshole prick you think I am. — Cristin Harber

One of the interesting things is is that Judaism was very attractive to the Roman aristocracy. — Susan Jacoby

Two blue men the size of football players walking through a store wrapped in Roman gladiator armor was bound to attract attention. — Missy Lyons

The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written. — Fulton J. Sheen

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary. — Roman Coppola

I don't know how to say goodbye. — Princess Anne

An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly. — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able. — Sanaya Roman

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts. — Roman Polanski

The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and — Will Durant

For them, it was just an ordinary miracle. — Robert Harris

You can't walk around here half naked in Roman warrior costumes or every woman in a fifty-mile radius will be on you like flies on honey. — Missy Lyons

The Rome he has been trained to serve, the Rome of Augustus and Germanicus, was gone. In its place stood Neronopolis, ruled by a megalomaniac brat. — James Romm

...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history. — Procopius Of Caesarea

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. — Joan Rivers

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction. — Roman Polanski

Football is at least as 'gay' as rugby, Greco-Roman wrestling and the film '300.' — Henry Rollins

The nation becomes the master of its fate not only when it has many good sons, but also when it possesses enough strength to restrain its bad ones. — Roman Dmowski

Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet. — Irene Thomas

I care not that this moment's lot was thin and sparsely dealt; all pleasures sweet can be forgot the instant they are felt. — Roman Payne

A girl without braids is like a city without bridges. — Roman Payne

We were hooked when we woke.
We had arms for each other.
But I yearned to resume
My dreams of another. — Roman Payne

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist

The perfect moments never last. That's what makes them perfect. — Peter Roman

The birthing wolf,
Her heart fed with tenderness,
Gave forth from ripe brown nipples,
Food to feed the universe. — Roman Payne

It is not for the people to give laws to the prince, but to obey his mandate. — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

A girl without braids is like a mountain without waterfalls. — Roman Payne

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man. — John Charles Pollock

I grew up in San Francisco and moved to L.A. about 20 years ago, and now my main home is in Hollywood. — Roman Coppola

I fear it is my lot, to bide my days in hunchbacked thought, to find what I forgot. — Roman Payne

The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people. — Lord George Gordon

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. — Joshua Roman

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered. — Roman Payne

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. — John Lennon

Spanish rain,
A maiden's dress,
Apothecary pills
And ancient thrills;
Melancholy kills
A girl's caress. — Roman Payne

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York. — Roman Abramovich

Hello, Goddess."- Roman Arceneaux — Brenda Tetreault

So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
- IV:22 — Suetonius

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. — Herbert Read

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him. — M.C. Scott

Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature. — Roman Payne

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent. — Roman Jakobson

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. — Roman Jakobson

IOU one Roman praetor.
She will be returned safely.
Sit tight.
Otherwise you'll be killed.
XOX, the Hunters of Artemis. — Rick Riordan

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination. — Roman Payne

Be there a picnic for the devil,
an orgy for the satyr,
and a wedding for the bride. — Roman Payne

You're Times New Roman, but I'm more Comic Sans. — Kestral M. Gaian

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act. — Michel De Montaigne

But five minutes later the five-hundred-year-old Roman chapel was filled to the rafters with the soaring sounds of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody, — Tiffany Reisz

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. — Mike Myers

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? — Elie Wiesel

You have been missing from me for far too long. — Belle Hale

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three. — Joshua Roman

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. — Irwin Shaw

the Roman satirical daily, Il Don Pirlone ('Mr Dickhead', — Lucy Riall

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. — Roman Polanski

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. — Roman Abramovich

Then maybe Roman will be able to forgive me."
"I believe he will." Father Andrew glanced at Connor. "Can you forgive yourself? — Kerrelyn Sparks

Imagine you already have whatever you want and thank your higher self in advance for bringing it to you. — Sanaya Roman

high-pitched squeaks could only mean one thing: her brother Roman and his best friend Cash had arrived. — Cristin Harber

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! — Caligula

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing. — Rob Pike

The lot of the bride
to be wed before bed
desired until rotten.
The lot of the author
to be read before bed
admired then forgotten. — Roman Payne

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies. — Robert H. Schuller

Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge, to show that I could. — Roman Polanski

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. — Joseph Barbera

God's response to the belittlement of his name, from the beginning of time, has been the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on a Roman cross. — Matt Chandler

By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction. — Peter Heather

I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. — Robert Graves

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it. — Richard Morris

Yes, in a woman, looks are the most important thing... But it's not how she looks 'to' us, so much as 'how she looks at' us. — Roman Payne

hell is full of good wishes and desires. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

Nature, God, or whatever you want to call the creator of the universe comes through the microscope clearly and strongly — Roman Vishniac

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies. — Neil Gaiman

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. — Roman Payne

He was too bold," said Abigail with a shake of her head. "It was not proper. And he is Roman." Leah — Janette Oke

We will be spending less in the transfer market in future years — Roman Abramovich

I don't know if the police of naming statements would agree with this. — Roman Abramovich

In relations with other nations, there is neither right nor wrong; there is only strength and weakness. — Roman Dmowski

The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But — Jose Rizal

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory. — Charles Spurgeon

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

With her death Egypt became a Roman province. It would not recover its autonomy until the twentieth century. — Stacy Schiff

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question. — Roman Polanski

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. — Bradley Cooper

Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language. — Roman Jakobson

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected. — Mark Rutte

Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods. He says he brought his Batman belt. — Ilona Andrews

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment. — Roman Abramovich

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me. — Martin Of Tours

The only circumstances in which I would write a roman a clef would be if I'd lost my fucking car keys. — Will Self

It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in human spirit. — Harold J. Laski

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley