In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who,… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I do work half time as a historian of medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and I started my career… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the… — Peter York Copy Share Image
World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism. — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
“To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha's life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted… — Lynn Hersha Copy Share Image
The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns. — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
