I wasn't a great student, but I was interested in this theater thing, and I could spend hours in the library researching… — Jimmy Smits Copy Share Image
In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
The most consequential change in man's view of the world, of living nature and of himself came with the introduction, over a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Baroque civilization believed in two truths, which for a post-18th-century mindset are exclusive truths - we have to eliminate one to believe… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century,… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a believable feeling for 18th Century reality in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. I didn't want… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
“What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of expression… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
Housetops were covered with 'gazers'; all wharves that offered a view were jammed with people ... As British officers happily reminded one… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“The Men who cannot deny us to be rational creatures, wou'd have us justify their irrational opinion and treatment of us, by… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“What a wretched circle this poor way of reasoning among the Men draws them insensibly into. Why is learning useless to us?… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“the Men, biased by custom, prejudice, and interest, have presumed boldly to pronounce sentence in their own favour, because possession empowered them… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems… — John Green Copy Share Image
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“Then Cato is forced at last to own that the subjection we are kept under by that arrogant sex, is the effect… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“It is quite idle (...) to insist so much on bodily strength, as a necessary qualification to military employments. And it is… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“So weak are their [Men's] intellectuals, and so untuned are their organs to the voice of reason, that custom makes more absolute… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
“My fiction-writing career owes it start to the bad navigation of an 18th century pirate. For it was” — Paul Kemprecos Copy Share Image
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich,… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Now I've got a fairly good grasp of the 18th century on what was common and what people thought. But I don't… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
“The ordering of events is in the right direction: technological advances in publishing, the mass production of books, the expansion of literacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s,… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
The great philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries did not think that epistemological questions floated free of questions about how the… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was… — Marina Warner 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
The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their… — Tom Devine Copy Share Image
“The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own management, are no… — Lady Sophia Fermor Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
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![“Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent. You can read their publications. In the 18th century it perhaps made some sense to conjure up the Illuminati and Masons. Not since.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c3a/noam-chomsky-42_18th-century_bohemian-grove-seems-to-be-a-kind-of-fra_2415586.jpg)
![“My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load." And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by…” quote by Maya Angelou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/887/maya-angelou-104_18th-century_my-people-couldn-t-have-survived-slavery_2520308.jpg)
