Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

His voice was soft but deep, and it sounded like history.

Down Don't Bother Me

Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.

Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

Our side has agents. Their side has spies.

Espionage and Covert Operations: A Global History

History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.

Eternity's Redemption

It's great to be a part of the greatest jackoff in history.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.

The Front Porch Prophet

(One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.)

History of a Crime

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Brave New World

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

Lytton Strachey

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

Robert Kiyosaki

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

Bill Viola

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Peter Eisenman

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

Rafael Moneo

History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

All the Worlds of Men

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Jeannot et Colin

I am...only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace. - Danny Rollings

Killer on Campus

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

Reamde

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

The Secret History

Well, it turns out a hero's lot is not glory or reward, but sacrifice.

Secret Histories