Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
I think I'm from the 18th century, not even the 19th. I don't even use a typewriter. I prefer longhand, and that's… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
If you lived in 18th-century England, you probably lived in a village, worked on the land, and your greatest fears were probably… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke,… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Look, science is hard, it has a reputation of being hard, and the facts are, it is hard, and that's the result… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If I drive my car to the store, those carbon molecules that are emitted actually get into the atmosphere circulation systems and… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived.… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna?… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
I hope that people will come and experience our play 'A Small Oak Tree Runs Red' . I don't want anybody to… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War, this very… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“the many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
I try to find a style that matches the book. In the Baroque Cycle, I got infected with the prose style of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew our… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible.” — Nancy Means Wright Copy Share Image
I think David Fincher should probably be an 18th Century Landscape painter because he has this temperament. — Robert Graysmith Copy Share Image
I would have loved to have been in Hong Kong, or China, in around the 18th century. — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Truly, Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century.” — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
![“By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States…” quote by Charles R. Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ca2/charles-r-morris-19787_18th-century_by-18th-century-standards-they-great-bri_49883.jpg)
![“I think he's [Louis Brandeis] a great model for progressive justices today who want to answer the originalists. It's not that the original paradigm cases are irrelevant, but you have to focus on the values the framers were trying to protect, not on the means with which those values were invaded in…” quote by Jeffrey Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ce/jeffrey-rosen-13180_18th-century_i-think-he-s-louis-brandeis-a-great-mode_1976260.jpg)
![“And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natural strength in the one than in the other, to qualify them more for military labours. Are not the Women of different degrees of strength, like the Men? Are there not strong and…” quote by Lady Sophia Fermor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2bf/lady-sophia-fermor-20567_18th-century_and-the-differences-thence-arising-betwe_38711.jpg)
