Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
This is our challenge at the beginning of the twenty-first century - we need to find the courage to see our own… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century. — Dave Anderson Copy Share Image
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.” “Really?” she asked. “Were you there?” His features blank, he looked… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Do you know this Sanskrit Shloka: "Let those who are versed in the ethical codes praise or blame, let Lakshmi, the goddess… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers… — Robert S Ellwood Copy Share Image
It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron;… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
The first century money changers were in the temple, but they didn't have the spirit of the temple... They were out of… — Jim Cymbala Copy Share Image
The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
The animals you say were 'sent' for man's free use and nutriment. Pray, then, inform me, and be candid, why came they… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
It has been my firm belief, based on my research and investigations over the past half century, that UFOs and their occupants,… — George Fawcett Copy Share Image
Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day. — John Bracken Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
When we used to play, we thought no one can break Sunil Gavaskar's record. No one could think about 50 Test centuries… — Kapil Dev Copy Share Image
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial... until about the middle of the last century, when a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
