Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

Marissa Moss

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

Thomas Mallon

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.

Tom Hulce

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

Brian Eno

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Kara Walker

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Thomas P. Campbell

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.

Dave Barry

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

Charles de Secondat

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest; and that of conquest preservation.

Alan Watts

What would you do if money was no object?

Chogyam Trungpa

We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

Charles Baudelaire

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

Lisa Gansky

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

James E. Faust

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Charlie Munger

Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.

Craig Civalier

We didn't have an ordinance that specifically stated that it's a school speed zone.

Stephanie Samuels

It's the most comprehensive ordinance I've seen in the state of New Jersey.

Carol P. Christ

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carlos Castaneda

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carl Bernstein

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

C. S. Lewis

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Pat Gelsinger

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Theaster Gates

Everything is raw material to me. Land is raw material... I take one form and transform it into other forms.

Benjamin Graham

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.

Fred Goss

We're not trying to be blue. But we're pretty frank, we're pretty raw and we're pretty real.

Ryan Stiles

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy.

Jonas Jennings

He reminded me of myself in college; just raw, raw talent,

Marvel Smith

He's got the kind of speed you can't coach. He's a raw talent.

Rick Hohenthaner

I always thought she was one of those raw talents that when she would get a stage to be on would shine. ... I know without a doubt, softball's her life.

O.J. Mayo

That could be right. (Kansas State) could be a possibility. At the same time, we don't want to go to a raw program.