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Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. -- Reed Hastings
My view is that climate changes have happened in the last 80 years, that is, the world has got a little bit warmer, although not as warm as it has been in Medieval times, or the Bronze Age. -- Piers Corbyn
Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart. -- Aeschylus
The Bronze Age was such a third-place era. -- Jarod Kintz
I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal. -- Paula Radcliffe
You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year. -- Damon Runyon
I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot. -- Macy Gray
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on. -- Richard MacDonald
Bronze in the mirror of the form, wine of the mind. -- Aeschylus
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart. -- Ron Kovic
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. -- Giovannino Guareschi
Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall. -- Louise Bogan
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair. -- Walter Bagehot
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. -- Maya Lin
Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not. -- David Gemmell
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel -- Robert Klein
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought. -- Virginia Woolf
If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you. -- Banksy
The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe. -- Friedrich Engels
Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics. -- Fritjof Capra
After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible. -- Elizabeth George Speare
Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals. -- Buzz Aldrin
I'm not disappointed with bronze. It's always good to come away with a medal. -- Bryan Volpenhein
The best pastas are cut with bronze dies that give them a rough texture and allow the sauce to cling. -- Joe Bastianich
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up. -- Nate Berkus
I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal in the Winter Olympics. -- Debi Thomas
The pigeon here is a beautiful bird, of a delicate bronze colour, tinged with pink about the neck, and the wings marked with green and purple. -- William John Wills
No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface. -- Michael Arad
These guys are just flying through the air and I'm capturing them in the split second and putting it into a work of art, via clay to the bronze. -- Richard MacDonald
In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel. -- Robert Klein
Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics. -- Gagan Narang
The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept. -- Henry Bessemer
I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby. -- Tracey Emin
I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters. -- Leander Paes
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. -- Lapo Elkann
If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone. -- E. L. Doctorow
I always have my journal with me. It was handmade by a guy at the San Telmo market in Buenos Aires. If you go there he can make you one. It's leather and bronze and I'm able to replace the paper when it runs out. It has a lion on the cover that I say is there to protect my thoughts. -- Blake Mycoskie
As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else. -- Maeve Binchy
Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
I have erected amonument more lasting than bronze. -- Horace
Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki -- Nigel Starmer-Smith
I took part in the sun-tanning Olympics â?? I just got bronze. -- Tim Vine
Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing. -- Nancy Pelosi
In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I did bronze survival swimming. I could save people in a bronzey kind of way. -- Eddie Izzard
Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves. -- Gladys Taber
On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit. -- Alex Shakar
How could you look more stupid than to be the guy accepting a bronze medal in gold shoes? -- Michael Johnson
Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement. -- Jerry Coleman
When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze. -- Cassandra Clare
Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze. -- Martha Ostenso
Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death. -- Emil Nolde
His work "The Pasture" features cast bronze cows in Toronto's financial district I wanted to remind stockbrokers what real stock is. -- Joe Fafard
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it. -- Thomas Carlyle
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper. -- Patricia Piccinini
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on. -- Margaret Thatcher
Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water. -- Carl Sandburg
If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze. -- Charles R. Swindoll
After Russia (winning bronze at Rostelecom Cup), I'm one of the top Canadian ladies. Tomorrow, I just have to do a good long program. -- Alaine Chartrand
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin. -- Dudley Randall
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. -- Homer
There is a way to play this game physically, but it's the mental part that's going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze. -- Lisa Fernandez
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. -- Jacques Barzun
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion. -- Alfred Armand Montapert
Annabeth laced her fingers through his. In the light of his bronze sword, her face was beautiful. 'We're together,' she reminded him. 'We'll get through this. -- Rick Riordan
As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and sorrow blooms their soul. -- Wilfred Owen
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose. -- William Butler Yeats
I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that. -- Lin Pardey
We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich. -- Bernard Goldberg
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck. -- Rick Riordan
My favorite look would be a fresh, dewy face with a bronze, sun-kissed glow. It looks so tropical and reminds me of a place that feels like true home. -- Mya
And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies. -- Leonard Cohen
With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat. -- Garry Kasparov
Great Britain be proud, be blessed, be bold! Show the world what are you made of; show them you are made of gold not bronze. Be proud, be blessed,be bold! -- Euginia Herlihy
The 2012 Olympics is going to cost Â£8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a price on two bronze medals in cycling. -- Jimmy Carr
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this. -- Gianluca Basile
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's. -- David Mitchell
New lesson, class. Most monsters will vaporize when sliced with a celestial bronze sword. This change is perfectly normal, and will happen to you right now if you don't BACK OFF!" - Percy -- Rick Riordan
The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals. -- Fanny Kemble
Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan. -- Jaime Pressly
It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze. -- Wallace Stevens
You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight. -- Jane Hirshfield
...opening up a newspaper is the key to looking classy and smart. Never mind the bronze-plated stuff about the role of the press in a democracy - a newspaper, kiddo, is about Style. -- Garrison Keillor
We want and expect to win the silver or gold. A bronze would be a step back. In fact, we think it would be a put-down if we don't win the silver or gold. -- Betty Okino
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze? -- Victor Hugo
What in the world are you thinking?" She sounded pretty flustered. "I try not to think," Leo admitted. "It interferes with being nuts. Just concentrate on moving that Celestial bronze. Echo, you ready? -- Rick Riordan
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it. -- Umberto Boccioni

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