Quote by David McCullough Download Open image ““How unpardonable would it have been in you to have turned out a blockhead. How”” — David McCullough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is intolerable that it should be in the power of one blockhead to do so much mischief. — Charles James Copy Share Image
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He had an idea all such blocks were probably fear-centered and basically hysterical in nature, as if the brain detected (or thought it had… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When you know the answer, it's not being hardheaded. It's just being right.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“If beheading is the medicine of headache, no man can live; why cant you find the real way out?” — Oladosu feyikogbon Copy Share Image
When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
