Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stefan Zweig

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Thomas Pynchon

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

Thomas B. Macaulay

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.

Thomas B. Macaulay

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Thomas B. Macaulay

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.

Tim Berners-Lee

The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.

Thomas Jefferson

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

Thomas Frank

In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.

Thomas Friedman

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.

Raymond Queneau

All societies are historical.

Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

Russell Simmons

Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box.

Ronald Harwood

Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.

Romain Rolland

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

Ron Paul

This much is true: you have been lied to.

Ron Paul

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

Sam Mendes

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

Rumi

A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

Susan Powter

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

Susan Orlean

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

Stonewall Jackson

The only winner today is big business.

Steve Kanaly

We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time.

Steve Earle

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

Steve Coogan

What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.

Philip Emeagwali

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Penelope Cruz

In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked around the house. Not hippie, but very free.

Paulo Costanzo

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

Pete Sampras

I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.

Pete Sampras

There's always one shot that I can rely on when I'm not hitting the ball that well, is my serve.

Phyllis Bottome

Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus!