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
Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“There are some however more condescending, and gracious enough to confess, that many Women have wit and conduct; but yet they are… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My collection of historical fashion consists of about 10,000 pieces - dresses and accessories, from 18th century to today. The main focus… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st. — Robert Darnton 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
“One legislator accused me of having a 19th-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai Hind!' also signalled its end… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation… — Walter Russell Mead Copy Share Image
If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century.… — Catherine Martin Copy Share Image
The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
Combinatorial analysis, in the trivial sense of manipulating binomial and multinomial coefficients, and formally expanding powers of infinite series by applications ad… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
“Milk was used in various forms during the summer months; in winter beer or water was used. Bread, cakes, potatoes, and sea… — William Petty Copy Share Image
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long.” — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The Sufi saint Mazhar Jaan Jana of 18th century Delhi believed that the Quran condemns bowing before deities because in pre-Islamic idol… — Asghar Ali Engineer 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
In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I was like, "Oh yeah, that's kind of like me. I'm always living in the past." When I was really young, I… — Diane Birch Copy Share Image
