Bettany Hughes Quotes

Justinian and Theodora’s time in power was also marked by the number of refugees they welcomed in to Constantinople. Struggling, homeless, stateless travellers came from East and West fleeing from the Persian and ‘barbarian’ troubles. Many arrived displaced from the Danubian and Gothic provinces by Huns and Goths; victims of Vandal atrocities had had their tongues cut out. The imperial pair built a hospice for refugees. The city was starting to build her reputation, which she still holds today, as a place of refuge.

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• The real bombs are my books, not me.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Real
  • Me
  • Books

• A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Reading
  • Kitchen

• I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Interview

• The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Success
  • Better
  • Chicago

• I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Start

• It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Category

• 'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Great
  • Love
  • She

• I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Important
  • Money

• I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Famous

• Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Air
  • Tree
  • Feet

• There's a marvelous peace in not publishing, there's a stillness. When you publish, the world thinks you owe something. If you don't publish, they don't know what you're doing. You can keep it for yourself.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Peace

• I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

  

  Buddy Rich

• The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • World
  • Commerce
  • Conducted

• Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Teach

• The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Wish
  • Color
  • Wells

• The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Dispel

• All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Animal

• Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Power
  • True
  • Follow

• Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Reason
  • Acting
  • Financial

• We do not attach ourselves lastingly to anything that has not cost us care, labor or longing.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Labor
  • Cost
  • Attach

• Justinian and Theodora’s time in power was also marked by the number of refugees they welcomed in to Constantinople. Struggling, homeless, stateless travellers came from East and West fleeing from the Persian and ‘barbarian’ troubles. Many arrived displaced from the Danubian and Gothic provinces by Huns and Goths; victims of Vandal atrocities had had their tongues cut out. The imperial pair built a hospice for refugees. The city was starting to build her reputation, which she still holds today, as a place of refuge.

  

  Bettany Hughes
  • Reputation
  • Troubles
  • Travellers