Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miley Cyrus

I take a hiatus every now and again, but I'm not good at that.

We've talked about hiring a personal trainer, and she wants to play about three weeks to a month after she has the baby.

We've struggled in that type of situation all year long. So it was nice to get a hit there and get a more comfortable lead.

Calvin Coolidge

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Busta Rhymes

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.

Celia Green

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

Carroll Quigley

I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a person and as a historian, although it must be admitted it has served to make my historical interpretations less conventional than may be acceptable of many of my colleagues in the field.

Carol Ann Duffy

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems

Carl von Clausewitz

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

Alan Furst

I invented the historical spy novel.

Alan Coren

Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

Alain de Botton

The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.

Alain de Botton

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Aimee Mullins

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Antonin Scalia

Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.

Brownie McGhee

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

Brownie McGhee

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Edmund Burke

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

Edmund Burke

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

Edward Sapir

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Edward Said

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

E. W. Howe

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

We used to get opportunities to sell our products in local fairs and festivals, where our toys and other ceremonials items were placed at a high premium. But in today's society, these products have lost their relevance.

We should start to see some recovery. But I'm looking for very high volatility for the next three to six months. We should have more stability in the market towards the end of the year.

We shoot fouls at practice. It's a mental thing. We know we can hit them. We've been talking about that in big-game situations, you have to hit them. That's what wins games. Tonight we needed to do it. We concentrated and got the win.

Greg McHugh

I do have very high customer service standards - I'd send back sushi because it's too fishy.

Brian Posehn

I try to hit all the places Guy Fieri visits in every city I go to. It's, like, something a 60-year-old would do.

Brian Kilmeade

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

Andrew Motion

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Andrew Bird

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

Amy Bloom

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.