Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

Raymond Queneau

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Richard Rorty

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

Rick Renzi

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

Robert Baldwin Ross

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

Rebecca West

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

Sacha Baron Cohen

If you think about the history of mobile handsets, in many respects there was a time when Asia and then Europe all led North America.

Stephen Elop

If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.

Susan Eisenhower

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

Salma Hayek

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.

Sophie Hunger

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

Stephane Hessel

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Steven Moffat

Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.

S. Jay Olshansky

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.

Smokey Robinson

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

Steve Yzerman

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Thomas Merton

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Vint Cerf