Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.

Edward Gibbon

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

Edith Sitwell

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

Eddie Mathews

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

David Hume

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

David Hume

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

David Duchovny

It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

David Burnett

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian.

Benazir Bhutto

What is not recorded is not remembered.

Audrey Hepburn

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Audre Lorde

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

Arnold J. Toynbee

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Antony Beevor

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

Diablo Cody

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

Diablo Cody

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

Dido Armstrong

Inside everybody's hiding something.

Denise Richards

I am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.

Edward Gibbon

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable....

Eazy-E

Nuthin' can avoid this shot 'cause it's hittin' It's so cool when you touch it, wear a mitten

Eazy-E

Jumped In The Fo' Hit The Juice On Ma Ride I Got Front Back, And Side To Side

Eazy-E

Police on my drawers I had to pause 40 ounce in my lap And it's freezing my balls

Elizabeth Olsen

When I'm wearing heels at events, my feet feel like they're sitting in pools of blood.

Bertrand Russell

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Chad Kroeger

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

Cassie Steele

I like mythology - anything historical.

Cassandra Peterson

When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

Cass Sunstein

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

Carolyn Murphy

I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

We have never had prices so high and increase so quickly.

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.