"I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was……" — Stacy Schiff
"I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change."
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31 Quotes by Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site.
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It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce…
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No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I…
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Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
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A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit…
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I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started…
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We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There…
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An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book…
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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in…
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My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So…
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For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last…
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Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are…
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Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried…
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More Adams Quotes
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one of 82 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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John Quincy Adams most certainly was a part of the Revolutionary War era. He was a young boy, but he…
— Michele Bachmann
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Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a…
— Piers Anthony
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But we also know that the very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more in…
— Michele Bachmann
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[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
— Henry Adams
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All that I am my mother made me. - John Quincy Adams. Children and mothers never truly part...
— Charlotte Gray
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Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see…
— Elliott Erwitt
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The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know…
— Unknown Author
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Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.
— John Szarkowski
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When I first came to Arsenal, I realised the back four were all university graduates in the art of defending.…
— Arsene Wenger
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Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There…
— Jody Lynn Nye
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I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the…
— Ian Paisley
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Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote…
— Thom Yorke
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