When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were ma...
E’ difficile parlare dell’importanza di un eroe immaginario. Ma gli eroi sono importanti. Gli eroi ci dicono qualcosa di noi stessi. I libri di storia ci dicono cosa siamo soliti essere, i documentari ci dicono chi siamo ora, ma gli eroi ci dicon...
O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives h...
It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is necessary is to expose them to rewards which they believe they are generating based on their actions when in fact the rewards are randoml...
Choice: that was the thing. Other people claimed that you can't choose who you love--it just happens!--but Grace and Roman knew that was a bunch of happy horseshit. Of course you chose who you loved. If you didn't choose, you ended up with what was l...
I mean, we’re talking about chocolate, for chrissake! Chocolate’s wonderful! Everyone loves it! Look at me, I’m part German! That makes me a kraut! Do you know what kraut is? It’s sauerkraut, men! Which means pickled cabbage! And no one likes...
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.
Die Belohnung für Langeweile sind Sicherheit und Geborgenheit.
Selbst die Verwandten der Berühmten [sind] berühmt, denn Ruhm [ist] erblich.
Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
Roman: [after Tej parachutes his car from the plane] I hate you, Tej!
Roman: [after Tej ejects his car out of the plane] I hate you, Tej!
