“Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“He may seem the fool who has given his all, by the wise men of the world; but it was the apparent… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“It was destined to be the most impressive kiss in the history of foreplay. The kiss lasted more than fifteen years. Not… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Vodka has a huge history in Russia, in that it's almost like a currency. It's the one thing that keeps the country… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“When I put my hands on your body on your flesh I feel the history of that body. Not just the beginning… — David Wojnarowicz Copy Share Image
I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The arrow of time doesn't move forward forever. There's a phase in the history of the universe where you go from low… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South… — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
“for in proportion as the enemy despair of conquest, they will be trying the arts of seduction and the force of fear… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Whether I say to him: “War and Peace is the staging of a determinist vision of history” or “You’d do well to… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of… — Duke of Wellington Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say. — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country. — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
When history looks back, I waI'm more aware of time. The element of time. nt people to know that the Nazis could… — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
“...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history...” — Peggy Herbert Copy Share Image
Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Holdouts never go well. Just look at history. It always ends badly. It wouldn't be the best decision. I make a lot… — Antonio Brown Copy Share Image
If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic… — Scipio Africanus Copy Share Image
It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed… — Mary-Rose MacColl Copy Share Image
Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism. — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins. And I'm buying… — David O. Sacks Copy Share Image
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
