Michael Rostovtzeff Quotes

We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

Michael Rostovtzeff

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• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Got

• Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lying
  • Curiosity
  • Wait

• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Know
  • Write
  • Start

• I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Myself
  • Justice
  • English

• It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Bad
  • Freedom
  • Words

• Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Service
  • Innovation

• Comedians' first ten minutes usually stay with them the first several years of their career. It's their mission statement. Their disclaimer that lets people know who they are. Or were. It's also a good time to make fun of your name if you have a funny or strange one.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

  

  Eleanor Tomlinson
  • Trust

• America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Life
  • Church

• Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Time
  • World
  • Shadow

• John Huston was a superb master. He knew how to make good films. I did three things with him. One is called Independence. It plays in Philadelphia, for free. It's been playing there for 25 years.

  

  Eli Wallach
  • Good
  • Free

• We should have A-levels in vocational subjects.

  

  James Dyson

• I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

  

  Anthony Minghella

• I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.

  

  Derek Luke
  • People
  • Interesting

• We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

  

  Neil LaBute

• The best thing about working on a movie with dancers is that we would get to have dance parties all the time!

  

  Chloe Bridges
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Dance

• When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

  

  Edward Furlong
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

  

  Peter Zumthor
  • Work
  • Architecture

• There is a lot of buying going on right now.

  

  Bob Walker
  • Buying
  • Right Now

• I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Writing
  • Understanding
  • Travel

• I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Together
  • Learning
  • Brain

• We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

  

  Michael Rostovtzeff
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Helping