Quotes About Timeless

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

All great popular literature today one day will be seen as great literature and will no longer be seen as popular literature.

My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'

Days that lift us like a wave, when you feel you could live forever.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

The transcendental promises a vacation from history.

Julianne Moore and Michael Keaton began in 1980s soap operas and 1970s sitcoms, respectively, such ancient history by show business standards that you need carbon dating to measure their careers.

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.