In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return…

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

— Edward Bellamy

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

— Charles Dickens

Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter…

— Navi Pillay

When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative…

— Allen St. Pierre

The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than…

— David Rolf

Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Once we realized that there were these 25 invariable types - the class politician, the frigid popular girl, the kid who tags along behind…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I…

— Peg Bracken

There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need…

— Noel Tichy

Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated…

— Michael Almereyda

A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding…

— Michael McCaul

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

— Clifton Fadiman