Mary Beard Quotes
One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress.
Quotes to Explore
-
I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
-
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
-
Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
-
When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
-
I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
-
Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
-
But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
-
I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
-
I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
-
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
-
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
-
My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
-
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
-
Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
-
A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
-
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
-
The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
-
There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
-
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend, was literally torn to pieces; her head, breasts, and pudenda were paraded on pikes before the windows of the Temple, where the royal family was imprisoned, while a man boasted drunkenly at a cafe that he had eaten the princess' heart, which he probably had.
-
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
-
Russia is a Tier 1 cyber power.
-
Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance.
-
I can't retire. My readers won't let me.
-
One of the downsides of working in antiquity is that you don't have many female voices, but you certainly have a lot of male terror about the potential of women's power. It shows you very clearly that the most oppressive cultures tend to be afraid of those whom they oppress.
