Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it. — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices. — Jo Beverley Copy Share Image
It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
After the Simpson trial, after all the bad things Cochran was claiming, I became the most investigated officer in the history of… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became… — Daniel Goldstein Copy Share Image
We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon… — Vaclav Klaus Copy Share Image
You don't just become number one because you sing like everybody else. There is something different you bring to the table. Make… — Yolanda Adams Copy Share Image
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Today, people call each other 'guys' - this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy. — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet. — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it. — David Christian Copy Share Image
Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling,… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
The history of American agriculture suggests that you can have transformation without a master plan, without knowing all the answers up front. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town. — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke. — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater. — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had… — Adam Ferguson Copy Share Image
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of… — Robert Littell Copy Share Image
If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all… — Stephen Elop Copy Share Image
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. — Therese Fowler Copy Share Image
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
