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  • The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God -- Bran Ferren
  • In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. -- Tadao Ando
  • Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors? -- Petrarch
  • Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history. -- Georg Buchner
  • I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines. -- Rachel Johnson
  • In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. -- Joseph Campbell
  • Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of the second rate." I'm sort of haunted by that. -- Stephen King
  • The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed whose uncle or grandmother, all of that. -- Ben Nicholson
  • Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola. -- James Howard Kunstler
  • Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory. -- Kofi Annan
  • Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility. -- Tom Hiddleston
  • I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us? -- Ted Danson
  • Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan. -- Les Carlyon
  • When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book. -- Douglas Brinkley
  • We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators. -- Stephen Fry
  • We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship. -- Julian Huxley
  • I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away. -- Walter Lippmann
  • One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article about me which said I was a Hungarian writer but pretending not to be. Bearing in mind I can hardly write a cheque in Hungarian, I was delighted to be included in the pantheon of Hungarian writers. -- Tibor Fischer
  • In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life. -- Jonathan Chait
  • Every person has their pantheon - the Bible, Hollywood, Shakespeare - their way of understanding the world. -- Ron Suskind
  • Hale is in the American pantheon not because of what he did but because of why he did it. -- Nathan Hale
  • The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders. -- Peter Morgan
  • One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon. -- Chris Ware
  • Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes. -- Georgy Zhukov
  • Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire. -- Paul Ramadge
  • I'm aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don't email saying, "When are we doing next film?" I'm excited to see. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
  • I don't care where the Cure is placed in the pantheon of rock. I don't care if we're perceived as relevant. We're never worried how we fit in. I don't even want to fit in. -- Robert Smith
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