The Adventures Of Marco Polo Quotes & Sayings

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect. — Dylan Moran

So we wait?" asked Severard.
"We wait, and we look to our defences. That and we try to find some money. Do you have any cash, Severard?"
"I did have some. I gave it to a girl, down in the slums."
"Ah. Shame."
"Not really, she fucks like a madman. I'd thoroughly recommend her, if you're interested."
Glokta winced as his knee clicked. "What a thoroughly heartwarming tale, Severard, I never had you down for a romantic. I'd sing a ballad if I wasn't so short of funds."
"I could ask around. How much are we talking about?"
"Oh, not much. Say, half a million marks?"
One of the Practical's eyebrows went up sharply. He reached into his pocket, dug around for a moment, pulled his hand out and opened it. A few copper coins shone in his palm.
"Twelve bits," he said. "Twelve bits is all I can raise. — Joe Abercrombie

Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep. — Robert B. Leighton

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. — D.H. Lawrence

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that. — Lee Hazlewood

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have
there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin) — Nancy Werlin

Hey Steve, no offense, but if you couldn't shoot, there would be no reason for you to be alive. — Charles Barkley

One can make a joke, but one can't be one. — Duff Cooper

There's something weird going on down here. I don't know what Lando's got us into, but I've got a - " "Bad feeling about it?" Anakin finished, managing a sheepish grin at stealing his father's trademark line. — R.A. Salvatore

Marco reported that homeless children [in Kublai Kahn's city of Daidu] were cared for and educated. While he says little about the system of education in China, we know from records of the time that Kublai Khan created thousands of public schools to provide a basic education for all children, including those of poor peasants. Until then, only the wealthy were literate. Kublai's bid at 'universal education' had never been attempted by any country on Earth. In the western world, nearly 500 years would pass before governments began to take responsibility for the public education of all children. — Russell Freedman

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited. — Hermann Ebbinghaus