Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.


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At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so op...
NANCY ROMAN
I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that...
NANCY ROMAN
My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own i...
NANCY ROMAN
It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi...
NANCY ROMAN
I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young a...
NANCY ROMAN
Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The g...
NANCY ROMAN
One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientis...
NANCY ROMAN
Daniel Bryan, as a person, I think he is a good guy; I don't know him on a personal note well en...
ROMAN REIGNS
Everyone's been through hell to get where they are, and I'm not gonna let anybody talk down ...
ROMAN REIGNS
If you're a Daniel Bryan fan, I'm all for that. The more people Daniel Bryan will bring into...
ROMAN REIGNS
There's no way Daniel Bryan can beat me in a Royal Rumble match. It's ridiculous. He's n...
ROMAN REIGNS
When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and thi...
ROMAN REIGNS
It's always been my expectation to be the top guy, the face of the company, the one with all of ...
ROMAN REIGNS
After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first...
ROMAN ROMANENKO
You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and...
ROMAN POLANSKI
A lot of people tune in to 'Monday Night Raw,' and they can hear these boos or these mixed r...
ROMAN REIGNS
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit...
ROMAN POLANSKI
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve as revenge. To show that...
ROMAN POLANSKI
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
ROMAN GARY
I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of alge...
NANCY ROMAN
At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic featur...
ROMAN JAKOBSON
When I started to make more or less serious money - for those times - then, of course, I wanted to s...
ROMAN ABRAMOVICH
Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, &#...
ROMAN COPPOLA
As far as match-ups are concerned, I feel pretty good about matching up with anybody. I'm sort o...
ROMAN REIGNS
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
ROMAN POLANSKI
I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories...
ROMAN COPPOLA
Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the t...
ROMAN JAKOBSON
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbin...
ROMAN JAKOBSON
To tell the truth I cannot call my childhood bad. In your childhood you can't compare things: on...
ROMAN ABRAMOVICH
I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way,...
JOSHUA ROMAN
Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a ...
ROMAN ABRAMOVICH
Our strategy for expansion of the Borders brand outside the US is one that we view as essential to o...
ANNE ROMAN
Borders absolutely supports the customers' right to choose what to read and what to buy, and Free In...
ANNE ROMAN
When you have good people, you want to do what you can to retain them. If part of that is helping th...
ANNE ROMAN
Every effort is made to offer positions to current staff.
ANNE ROMAN
We do often attract former teachers and other professionals who spend their lives around books and e...
ANNE ROMAN
If it's a good tourism season, there'll be some hiring done at our stores. Tourism drives (hiring) t...
ANNE ROMAN
You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would ...
ROMAN REIGNS
Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I'm willing to learn about anything...
ROMAN REIGNS
Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to b...
NANCY ROMAN
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism bec...
ROMAN JAKOBSON
The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director mysel...
ROMAN COPPOLA
I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks dese...
ROMAN COPPOLA
Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as comi...
ROMAN JAKOBSON
I used to be a lot better looking before I joined WWE. Whatever happens in the ring is real, and for...
ROMAN REIGNS
Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa...
ROMAN COPPOLA
I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking abo...
ROMAN COPPOLA
Personally, for my character, I started as the silent but deadly type.
ROMAN REIGNS
After the situation with Kursk submarine, I started looking at Mr. Berezovsky in a completely differ...
ROMAN ABRAMOVICH