Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Grimes

Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.

Jeanette Winterson

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

Mary Pope Osborne

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

Lion Feuchtwanger

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Robert Anton Wilson

[My wife] liked to collect old encyclopedias from second-hand bookstores, and at one point we had eight of them. When I wrote my first historical novel---back in 1980, before I was online---I used them often as a research tool. For instance, I learned that the Bastille was either 90 feet high or 100 feet or 120 feet. This led me to formulate Wilson's 22nd Law: 'Certitude belongs exclusively to those who only look in one encyclopedia.'

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Italo Calvino

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible.

Jim Butcher

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

Sally Deering

There are no four-letter words or vulgarity. It's got modern themes, but they are presented in an old-fashioned way.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Albion W. Small

Sociology was born of the modern ardor to improve society.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.