Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after Johnson's death in 1784, of producing what is now held to be a model of biography; rich in detail and anecdote, a...
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating.
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
Nature and art: The material and the workmanship. There is no beauty unaided, no excellence that does not sink to the barbarous, unless saved by art: It redeems the bad and perfects the good. Because nature commonly forsakes us at her best, take refu...
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feelings, the actor�...
History is just one fucking thing after another.
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
Every body has role to play in the history of the world.
Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.
Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.
I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.
I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.
