Literature, the study of literature in English in the 19th century, did not belong to literary studies, which had to do with… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
To be an Irish poet after that 19th century in which there was such a struggle toward the light, I think still… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“[N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking… — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and… — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious… — William James Copy Share Image
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I just don't care about popular culture. It looks to me pointless and superficial. If I had free time I'd rather read… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the… — Peter Drucker 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
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Above all, he encourages her to paint, nodding with approval at even her most unusual experiments with color, light, rough brushwork [...].… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The Bin Ladens must not be confused with authentic jihad - it's quite something else. If you want an example of external… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, 19th-century scientists were just as ready to jump to the conclusion that any guess about nature was an obvious fact, as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'd signed up not just for Christianity but the established Church of England. That has a particular history and I think we… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead,… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
