Quotes About Revival

The most effective way to revive a functional democracy is to do what we have always done; transfer decision-making from the unaccountable institutions: monarchs, priestly castes, military juntas, political or economic dictatorships, or modern corporations, and bring it back to the public arena.

I love seeing fashion from the past making a comeback.

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans.

Dor woke again as dawn came. The sun had somehow gotten around to the east, where the land was, and dried off so that it could shine again.

Nothing—nothing!—is too far gone that your God cannot resurrect it.

The one term I don't like to be called is a 'vulture.' Because to me, a vulture is a kind of asset-stripper that eats dead flesh off the bones of a dead creature. Our bird should be the phoenix, the bird that reinvents itself, recreates itself from its ashes. And that's much closer to what it is that we really do.

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is no walk in the park or mere drum-beating and gong-clanging.

When films are remade, it often becomes a big deal. In theater, it's called a revival.

I was a big fan of The Revival when they were in NXT. I thought they were as good as Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson.

And when power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.'

There's always talk about the blues dying out, but it won't.

I would die of pleasure if 'The Day Today' or 'Brass Eye' came back. Though there's something really special about the fact that they only did one series of each.

What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow.

For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?

We brought Safeco back from the brink of failure.

I have stayed true to that first idea that people can have a day in their lives that is very important and if they can reconnect with that day, reconnect with the people they were then, they can suddenly revive their emotions.

I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'

I'm trying to bring back 'Top of the Pops.' I don't know why us artists haven't just stood there and said, 'Let's back a campaign and bring it back,' because it would be the most amazing thing ever. 'X Factor' has got the Sunday show, and except for 'Later with Jools Holland,' which is a massive success, there isn't one music show.

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive and lend it grandeur and height.

The sunken are always seeking the earth again.

Genius is the activity which repairs the decay of things.

Instead of trying to create a new religion from scratch, aim to breathe new life into the forms that already exist. If you are alive, you'll enliven all you touch. To revive faith from dead tradition, three things are needed: soul, soul, and more soul.