Michael Rostovtzeff Quotes

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

Michael Rostovtzeff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: ukrainian
  • Birth: November 10, 1870 - October 20, 1952

Topics

LifeHistoryGreatPoliticalLong

It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.

Jill Lepore

WinterSportsTimeSillyRulesRun

When museums are built these days, architects, directors, and trustees seem most concerned about social space: places to have parties, eat dinner, wine-and-dine donors. Sure, these are important these days - museums have to bring in money - but they gobble up space and push the art itself far away from the entrance.

Jerry Saltz

ArtMoneySpaceDinnerPushPlaces

It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

John le Carre

GoodTimeStruggleWritingWorld

When you take the best of universities in the world, all of them have research and education contiguous; the person who teaches you could be a Nobel laureate. Some subjects are at the tri-junction of many subjects put together.

Shiv Nadar

EducationBestTogetherResearchYou

My music is genuine, and I'm talking about stuff that no one else - no one my age, anyway, in the game - is talking about. Nobody. I'm the only one really stating facts and speaking with real street knowledge.

Shy Glizzy

MusicAgeKnowledgeGameFactsReal

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Tom Perrotta

LoveBeautyGreatSchoolHigh School

When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

Rod Taylor

JobBuildingInsuranceSaidActor

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

Ronnie Wood

DepressionThinkBodyBackNowTry

Honestly, it's important to not take this whole process of life on this planet too seriously. And you need games to remind you that every aspect of your experience on this planet is a game. And you have to be a good sport. You have to strategize, and you have to have fun.

RuPaul

LifeGoodExperienceFunGameYou

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.

Judd Apatow

GreatSchoolFunPeopleCollege

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

Dr. Dre

AlcoholYouHouseMercedesOldBank

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Arthur Miller

LifeCommitmentManTragedySay

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