I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
In the mid 19th century, it had taken a generation of political rhetoric to induce southern soldiers to fight for the interests… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
“...we forget to appreciate what it meant for people to escape from the wages of medieval times to incomes two or three… — Edmund S Phelps Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, we didn't much like the loud annexationist voices south of the border or American support for Sinn Fein… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Britain in the 19th century was two things simultaneously; the hub of the largest empire on earth and the greatest manufacturing and… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
For more than twenty years by my own work and personal initiative, I have gathered from all the old streets of Vieux… — Eugene Atget Copy Share Image
I'm not electronically geared at all; I'm really a 19th century cartoonist. I have a 15-year-old daughter, and what she's attracted to… — Jules Feiffer 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
“Brewing is mentioned rarely in accounts of the Industrial Revolution. Temperance pressures meant it was impolitic for brewers to boast of their… — Peter Brown Copy Share Image
It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Novels shouldn’t aspire to answer questions, and I wouldn’t presume to offer advice about love or marriage in any case. What’s fascinating… — Nell Freudenberger Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the… — Mustafa Akyol 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
Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution… — Garry Kasparov 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
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
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is… — James Black Copy Share Image
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
Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books… — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought… — George Soros 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
People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high… — Sebastian Clovis Copy Share Image
Even the building of a second British empire in the 19th century never fully healed the wound of losing America, and the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
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