When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I… — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all… — Frank A. Vanderlip Copy Share Image
Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics ... would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the… — Franz Karl Achard Copy Share Image
The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
In this particular historical moment, the notion of conjuncture helps us to address theoretically how youth protests are largely related to a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows,… — Santoka Taneda Copy Share Image
It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the… — William E. Jenner Copy Share Image
Artists have their existential questions as human beings, and they address these questions in their works. But they are also thinking in… — Gunnar Kvaran Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
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