Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

Charles J. Shields

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

Haruki Murakami

The History Of The Universe In Three Words CHAPTER ONE Bang! CHAPTER TWO sssss CHAPTER THREE crunch. THE END

Iain M. Banks

Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

John Brockman

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read." ( , NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)

David McCullough

I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy.

Ben Elliot

Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

James Rozoff

History had a way of playing cruel tricks on those who chased it.

Dan Brown

If you are kind enough today, history will sing your song and be kind to you.

Debasish Mridha

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

Soren Kierkegaard

Captain Sharp: It's been proven by history: all mankind makes mistakes.

Moonrise Kingdom

Senator Charles Palantine: We meet at a crossroads in history. No longer will the wrong roads be taken.

Taxi Driver

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Charlton Heston

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

Alfred Adler

History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --

Abba Solomon Eban

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

Auliq Ice

How beautiful would history have been if it could be written beforehand and then acted out like drama!

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

Human beings remember "firsts"- the first time something happens, or the begining of an experience- and we tend to remember "lasts" as well. So when you are about to make a critical/negative delivery , start your criticism with a positive begining, i...

The Charisma Myth: Master the Art of Personal Magnetism

So why don’t Americans cheat? Because they think that their system is legitimate. People accept authority when they see that it treats everyone equally, when it is possible to speak up and be heard, and when there are rules in place that assure you...

David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be sa...

Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, answered as follows: 'If the books of this library contain matters opposed to the Koran, they are bad and must be burned. If they contain only the doc...

Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics