I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
“One day, perhaps, the world may taste the pickles of history. They may be too strong for some palates, their smell may… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Plenty of people are intrigued by their family history. Growing up as the son of West Indian immigrants who moved to London… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
“The only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. "Fear," he… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
“Kvothe continued, smiling himself “I see you laugh. Very well, for simplicity’s sake, let us assume I am the center of creation.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I directed the play 'Amadeus' with puppets way back in the day for theater. I also studied puppetry at the Eugene and… — Steve Zissis Copy Share Image
If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
“Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
“To recover frail embers from the flames of history, and to carry them, carefully, to the fires of our own age, so… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
“One of the things that I wanted to find out when I started working on the book—that's always fascinated me—I have great… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I was teaching history and coaching both tennis and track along with football. I felt like I had the best of both… — Mike Holmgren Copy Share Image
We are in a very critical and sensitive time in this nation. We need our president to sit down with folks who… — Tim Scott Copy Share Image
And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Though historians occasionally try their hand at prophecy (without notable success), the study of history aims above all to make us aware… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have… — John Larson Copy Share Image
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and… — Samuel E. Morison Copy Share Image
Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes -… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
My legs were kind of asleep and I slipped. With quick reflexes Stark caught me. This woke me up, the rush of… — Jade Copy Share Image
No, it’s very comforting actually, to know that you’re sitting in a long legacy of actresses who’ve played the role. I’m absolutely… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Unless you listen, people are weazened in your presence; they become about a third of themselves. Unless you listen, you can't know… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished… — William H. Prescott Copy Share Image
The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
From the dim morning hours of history when the father was king and priest down to this modern time of history's high… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“We never learn anything, never in the world, and in spite of all the history books written. They’re just the way we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I understood much later that this was the day of ‘the largest seaborne invasion in history’ or ‘the biggest military operation ever… — Holger Eckhertz Copy Share Image
It's tempting to look back into history with rose-tinted glasses. Most people in the Stone Age didn't live anywhere near as long… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
“Just this past summer, I took online courses in introductory logic and law through civilization. Often the weight of history, with its… — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one… — Chuck Knox Copy Share Image
In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If I have a chance to make a larger amount of money in a legacy fight against the No. 1 welterweight in… — Tyron Woodley Copy Share Image
