Romana Quotes & Sayings

Stracciatella alla Romana 8 cups chicken broth, preferably homemade 6 ounces fresh spinach, cut into strips 4 eggs, plus 2 tablespoons water ½ cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese Salt and pepper Boil the stock and add spinach, cooking until wilted, about 3 minutes. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs with the water; add grated cheese. Whisk the egg mixture briskly into the boiling broth, and add salt and pepper to taste, then serve. — Christina Baker Kline

Steampunk is ... the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama — Gail Carriger

I'm glad I know you Dave" -- "Me too Jack" -- "Why? " "Maybe I wanted to stand on my head in the snow to prove it but I do, am glad, will be glad, after all that's right there's nothing else for us to do but solve these damn problems and I've got one right here in my pants for Romana" "But that's so sick and tired to call life a problem that can be solved" -- "Yes but I'm just repeating what I read in the dead pigeon textbooks" -- "But Dave I love you" -- "Okay I'll be right over. — Jack Kerouac

When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son of God.
— Shane Claiborne

Barabbas ("Son of the Father") is a kind of Messianic figure. Two interpretations of Messianic hope are juxtaposed here in the offer of the Passover amnesty. In terms of Roman law, it is a case of two criminals convicted of the same offense - two rebels against the Pax Romana. It is clear that Pilate prefers the nonviolent "fanatic" that he sees in Jesus. Yet the crowd and the Temple authorities have different categories. If the Temple aristocracy felt constrained to declare: "We have no king but Caesar" (Jn 19:15), this only appears to be a renunciation of Israel's Messianic hope: "We do not want this king" is what they mean. They would like to see a different solution to the problem. Again and again, mankind will be faced with this same choice: to say yes to the God who works only through the power of truth and love, or to build on something tangible and concrete - on violence. Jesus — Pope Benedict XVI

Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces. — Jerry Pournelle

This,' whispered the Doctor to Romana, 'is going to be like trying to find a book about needles in a room full of books about haystacks. — Gareth Roberts

Intelligence guided by the will using memory and imagination assisted by intuition. — Romana Kryzanowska

I don't think of myself as a grading barometer and I doubt if any climber could be one. — Fred Nicole

You can say what Pilates is in three words. Stretch with Strength and Control. And the control part is the most important because that makes you use your mind. — Romana Kryzanowska

Lets go eat a God damn snack — Rex Ryan

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself ... — Lady Caroline Lamb

Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects. — Richelle Mead

The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us. But that's not the same as knowingly lying. — Rob Roberge

You apply Pilates in everyday life, like how you sit, how you walk. You've heard a lot of people complain about back problems; it is because these people walk incorrectly with the last vertebra of their tailbone. They stick it out instead of pulling it in and down. — Romana Kryzanowska

To avoid detection, the Doctor had attached a device called Randomiser to his TARDIS, his plan being to outfox the Black Guardian by popping up randomly all over the place. Neither Romana nor K-9 had the heart to tell the Doctor that that was pretty much what he did anyway. — Gareth Roberts

Creativity is improvisation — Simon Silva

I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline and it taught me to control my temperament. — George Lopez

I remember only what interests me. — Georgette Heyer

Rhythms are relations between what you believe and what you believed before. — David Foster Wallace

You can turn a giant into a mouse just by getting him fatigued. That was my whole game plan. — Kurt Angle

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised. — Bobby Fischer

John exposes Pax Romana and Pax Augusta to be bald-faced lies. He does not allow his hearers to ignore the fact that a great deal of violence has gone into creating and sustaining empire, for example, in the brutal suppression of the Jewish Revolt. How is it truly a matter of "peace" if you use overwhelming force to subdue a country that never wished to be a part of your empire in the first place? — David A. DeSilva

Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad. — Lalla Ward

Nobody wants to lose. But I don't care what my win-loss record is. At the end of the day, I don't look at it. — Tim Lincecum

Masturbation is good for the right arm. — Daron Malakian

I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana. — Lalla Ward