#renaissance

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting. ↗

— Colin Hanks

#around #become #big #dad #going

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. ↗

— Horace

#alert #arrest #before #carefully #decay

But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#been #i #kind #long #long process

Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#around #did #festivals #i #kidding

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#await #certainty #every #experience #feel

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. ↗

— John Ruskin

#diminishing #done #heretofore #i #landscape

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients. ↗

— George Santayana

#like #mind #pilgrim #renaissance #sedentary

I did not know how to paint a mural. I did not know how to prepare the surface. There was nobody from the Renaissance around who could advise me, and I did the best I could. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#around #best #could #did #how

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #had #historically #many #periods

[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep. ↗

— Thomas More

#fashion #humorous #renaissance #humor