#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

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#building #classical #followed #growth #incapable

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

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

the choices we make dictate the life we lead ↗

— Danny De Vito

#life

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence. ↗

— Julianne Davidow

#italy #love #renaissance #spiritual-world #love

[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

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#motivational #renaissance #inspirational

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#barbarity #certain #certain point #civilization #collapse

Art always penetrates the particular fissures in one's psychic life. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#renaissance #swerve #art