William Saturno quote: "The mural shows that early Maya painting had achieved a high level of sophistication and grace well before the great works of the Classic Maya in the seventh century."

In Western terms, it's like knowing only modern art and then stumbling on a Michelangelo or a Leonar...
WILLIAM SATURNO

The way the Maya built pyramids is by building one layer on top of another. We have [the building wh...
WILLIAM SATURNO

We then witness the maize god's birth, his death and his resurrection, before the wall ends with the...
WILLIAM SATURNO

It was like discovering the Sistine chapel if you didn't know there had been a Renaissance - like kn...
WILLIAM SATURNO

It is really breathtaking how beautiful this is.
WILLIAM SATURNO

It has opened a window into the very origins of Maya civilization.
WILLIAM SATURNO

In that way it really is like you didn't know the Renaissance ever happened?you have no knowledge th...
WILLIAM SATURNO

With its fine painting and its elaborate mural showing the mythic basis of kingship, the chamber has...
WILLIAM SATURNO

Between 200 and 300 A.D. is when we become literate in Maya writing. It's definitely writing, though...
WILLIAM SATURNO

With its fine painting and its elaborate mural showing the mythic basis of kingship, the chamber has...
BILL SATURNO

We found two limes and split them between the six of us. Yum.
BILL SATURNO

I didn't want to tell her what an idiot I had been ? how I had put her and our family at risk.
BILL SATURNO

We made a series of bad decisions, one after another after another ? and not getting food and water ...
BILL SATURNO

We didn't tell anybody until March of 2002 ? that's when the April National Geographic was released ...
BILL SATURNO

It was the height of the dry season and we set off early in the morning on what was supposed to be a...
BILL SATURNO

I headed into the looters tunnel to cool off, shined my light around and there it was. Only 80 centi...
BILL SATURNO

Untold love is like falling stars , always fall but never reach
WILLIAM

The more you stab , the more i step
WILLIAM

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
WILLIAM GIBSON

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpiec...
WILLIAM SAFIRE

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
WILLIAM BLAKE

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common ha...
WILLIAM JAMES

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.
WILLIAM MASTERS

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY

I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that thin...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itsel...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things...
WILLIAM MORRIS

I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.
WILLIAM MORRIS

We are living in a epoch where there is combat between commercialism, or the system of reckless wast...
WILLIAM MORRIS

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is ha...
WILLIAM MORRIS

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS

If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
WILLIAM MORRIS

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, ...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping t...
WILLIAM MORRIS

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
WILLIAM MORRIS

No man is good enough to be another's master.
WILLIAM MORRIS

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
WILLIAM MORRIS

Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE

I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
WILLIAM BARCLAY

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life ...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY

They say miracles are past.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingl...
WILLIAM GIBSON

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
WILLIAM OSLER

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel wort...
WILLIAM PENN

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.
WILLIAM GODWIN

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
WILLIAM GOLDING

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPER

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
WILLIAM GODWIN

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
WILLIAM JAMES

Tenderness is the name for a lover's most exquisite sensation; protection is implied in his most...
WILLIAM GODWIN

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary...
WILLIAM MORRIS

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.
WILLIAM PENN

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before t...
WILLIAM PENN

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we ...
WILLIAM PENN

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pe...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT

The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM

What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING

Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN

Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND

These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER

Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER

When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER

India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER

Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All the worlds a stage,And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their ent...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I am in bloodSteppd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go oer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

So farewell to the little good you bear me. Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!This is t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The first thing we do, lets kill all the lawyers.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Had I but servd my God with half the zealI servd my king, He would not in mine ageHave left me naked...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Glendower:I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur:Why, so can I, or so can any man;But will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with t...
WILLIAM PENN

For we put the power in the people.
WILLIAM PENN

They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
WILLIAM PENN

I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any singl...
WILLIAM PITT

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The mural shows that early Maya painting had achieved a high level of sophistication and grace well before the great works of the Classic Maya in the seventh century.

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The mural shows that early Maya painting had achieved a high level of sophistication and grace well before the great works of the Classic Maya in the seventh century.

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