In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory, Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in… — Margaret O'Brien Copy Share Image
We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I wouldn't like to live in a castle now, but I'd enjoy a visit to Restormel in Cornwall in its 13th century… — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we… — Tim McCoy Copy Share Image
Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster. — Geri Halliwell Copy Share Image
America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain… — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index. — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge… — Marc Quinn Copy Share Image