Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and… — Marcia Angell 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
Ironically, the only gun control in 19th century England was the policy forbidding police to have arms while on duty. — Don Kates Copy Share Image
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices. — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text, — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
“So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping… — Michael Levenson Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm… — Robert Stone 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
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I think there are deep structural things that are wrong in the world. The US is the Western empire of the 19th… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
Back in the 19th century, our marketing folks decided to play up the refined usage angle because prescriptivism was very popular: our… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until… — Raoul Dufy Copy Share Image
A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I believe sans serif typefaces - today upheld as models of neutrality and legibility - were called "Grotesques" in the 19th century… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, if you had a basement lab, you could make major scientific discoveries in your own home. Right? Because… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Because of my politics, people think I'm anti-American. But I was quite the reverse. What I don't like about the United States… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
