Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurie Halse Anderson

Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.

Lara Stone

I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.

Terry Pratchett

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

Terry Pratchett

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Terence McKenna

History is rooted in the future

Terence McKenna

The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

Simon Schama

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

Simon Schama

The irony about Charles II is not that he came to the throne because England needed a successor to Charles I, but because England needed a successor to Oliver Cromwell.

Simon Cowell

I actually don't understand a word Paula's saying anymore. It's like a new language.

Rick Riordan

Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.

Timothy Noah

Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.

Stephen Fry

Nature admits no hierarchy of beauty or usefulness or importance.

Sri Aurobindo

One who loves God finds the object of his love everywhere.

Sri Aurobindo

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

Sonia Rykiel

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

Roger Taylor

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

Thomas Jefferson

We might have been a free and great people together.

Thomas Jefferson

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Rick Ross

Look you dead in the face Now tell me how good does it taste

Rick Ross

Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.

Robin G. Collingwood

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

Robin G. Collingwood

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

Robert Walpole

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

Robert Conquest

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Rob Sheffield

It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans.

Robert M. Pirsig

Cliches and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Robert E. Lee

History teaches us hope.

Washington Irving

For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species.

Washington Irving

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

Walter Kaufmann

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

Voltaire

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

Voltaire

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon