Eighteenth Quotes
71 Eighteenth quotes by 68 unique authors
-
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much…
— Black Elk
-
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the…
— Edmund Husserl
-
Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy, and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea…
— Wallace Shawn
-
I was very much into buying contemporary art, but I've just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that it's not great…
— Sylvester Stallone
-
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs…
— James Stockdale
-
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
— Barbra Streisand
-
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence…
— Eric Weiner
-
Lying on the floor, with the carved panels of the ceiling flickering dimly above, I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that…
— Diana Gabaldon
-
The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
-
Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
-
If Tolstoy were alive today and working at Panopticon Insurance, he'd say that all insurance companies are the same, then throw himself through an eighteenth…
— Paul Neilan
-
I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman…
— John Green
-
Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?” “Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I…
— Libba Bray
-
The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus,…
— Felix Klein
-
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
— Frank Crowninshield
-
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were…
— Jill Lepore
-
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and…
— Robert Reich
-
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven.…
— Laurence Housman
-
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
— Wilhelm Dilthey
-
These city walls ain't got no love for me. I'm on the ledge of the eighteenth story.
— Nickelback
-
Brasky's ranked eighteenth in the AP College Football Poll.
— Bill Brasky
Who Wrote These Eighteenth Quotes
68 authors contributed a total of 71 Eighteenth Quotes, led by these top contributors: