"Even for the most excitable preacher, there was……" — Simon Schama
"Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle."
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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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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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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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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 Excitable Quotes
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one of 21 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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By temperament I am not unduly excitable and certainly not trigger-happy. I think twice before I shoot and very often…
— Bill Brandt
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Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I…
— B B King
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Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I can’t be generous with time, but I…
— Florence Welch
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.
— Anais Nin
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No, he just needs a moment," Curran said. "Young bouda males. Easily excitable.
— Ilona Andrews
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There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons.…
— Kano Jigoro
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
— Guy de Maupassant
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Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.
— Robert Bly
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Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.
— Warren Zevon
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I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I…
— Anais Nin
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