“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What is this much repeated phrase 'active citizen' supposed to mean? The active citizens are the ones who took the Bastille. — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?” — Bastille Pompeii Copy Share Image
I didn't know about the rest of the class, but when Bastille Day eventually rolled around, I planned to stay home and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
I was in New York 9/11. Mark's [Wahlberg] from Boston, flew there immediately after. I was in Nice Bastille Day when the… — Peter Berg Copy Share Image
Most of the crew were staying in Monaco. But my family and I were actually staying in Nice because I had my… — Jamie Dornan Copy Share Image
Long ago I abandoned my masterpiece a roll of paper thirty yards long which I filled completely with minute handwriting in my… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
The short interregnum of civil society built on the ruins of the Bastille came to its end with the establishment of the… — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently… — Steven R. McQueen Copy Share Image
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image