Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

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

Reamde

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')

Richard the Third

...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

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

Meltdown

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Mother Night

History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.

The Mandarin and Other Stories

What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question...

Living History

The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

Let the Great World Spin

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

Son of a Witch

We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai

Unison

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

George Eliot

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.

Ryne Sandberg

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Time Enough for Love

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Naomi Wolf

Entrepreneur, don't just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.

Onyi Anyado

Please take a long, hard look at your textbook, cause I'm history

Owl City

Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

Ralph Waldo Emerson