"DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it……" — Simon Schama
"DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor."
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57 Quotes by Simon Schama
Simon Schama has 57 quotes on this site.
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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first…
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is...…
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The great theme of modern British history is the fate of freedom. The 18th century inherits, after the Civil War,…
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More Automobile Quotes
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and…
— Neal Barnard
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
— Joe Biden
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Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
— Erma Bombeck
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I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
— Ray Bradbury
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The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more…
— Art Buchwald
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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big…
— Bill Bryson
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Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these…
— Nolan Bushnell
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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world,…
— Vince Cable
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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a…
— Walter Chrysler
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
— Albert Einstein
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I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step…
— Booth Tarkington
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