Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Samuel Johnson

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Samuel Johnson

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Samuel Johnson

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Ronald Reagan

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

Rodney Dangerfield

If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

Roberto Bolano

Literature + Illness = Illness

Robert Penn Warren

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

Robert Penn Warren

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Wallace Stevens

I was the world in which I walked.

Warren E. Burger

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.

Vivienne Westwood

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Vivienne Westwood

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Walter Benjamin

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Walter Benjamin

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness

William Blake

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Wale

Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

Samuel Beckett

How hideous is the semicolon.

Salman Rushdie

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Salman Rushdie

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Rudolf Otto

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

Whitney Houston

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.

Wendy Liebman

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.

Waqar Younis

Having scored 298 and still hitting a six issomething unimaginable and youneed to be a genius for that

W. H. Auden

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

W. H. Auden

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

Vladimir Putin

I'll be honest, I felt an urge to squeeze him like a kitten and that led to the gesture I made. There was nothing behind it really.

Wilfred Owen

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Stephenie Meyer

Funny how it kept hitting me, like each new thing was a surprise. When was I going to stop being surprised?

Stephen Colbert

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

Stefan Zweig

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.