Quotes of: Roman-empire Keyword

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture.

Stephen Kinzer

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

Eric S. Raymond

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

James Theodore Bent

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.

Harry Browne

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

Herbert Kaufman

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat.

James Pinckney Miller

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

John Oliver

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

John Fiske

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Vladimir Putin

Jim: Learned a new word today. Atom bomb. It was like the God taking a photograph.

Empire of the Sun

Dainty: What else you betting with Baise? Basie: My LIFE. [shows a copy of LIFE magazine]

Empire of the Sun

[last lines] Mary Graham: [upon finding her barely recognizable son] Jamie?... Jamie?... Jamie?

Empire of the Sun

Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.

Oliver Ellsworth

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Italo Calvino

I did sing in another film called 'Empire Records' which is a cult film. 'Grease 2' is also a cult film. You either love it or just think the original was better.

Maxwell Caulfield

The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.

Alice Hoffman

At some point you have to toss aside the things and people that don't work and JUST. BUILD. YOUR. EMPIRE.

Travis Simmons

Princess Leia: All troop carriers will assemble at the north entrance. The heavy transport ships will leave as soon as they're loaded. Only two fighter escorts per ship. The energy shield can only be opened for a short time, so you'll have to stay ve...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[Luke has seen a vision of Han, Leia and Chewie being tortured in Cloud City] Luke: I saw - I saw a city in the clouds. Yoda: [nods] Friends you have there. Luke: They were in pain... Yoda: It is the future you see. Luke: The future? [pause] Luke: Wi...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

[first title cards] Title card/crawl: A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Title card/crawl: It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base ...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Tommy Nettle: No one speaks the fucking lingo out here. You can't say 'pass the biscuit' or 'where's me hand grenade?', they just shrug. Cause they hate us too. I mean, that's the point. We fight in France and the French fucking hate us. Make me Home...

Atonement