Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

Gary Numan

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

Michael Behe

I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.

Gabrielle Anwar

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

Don Simpson

If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries.

George Crumb

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Golda Meir

History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.

11/22/63

People regard art too highly, and history not enough

The 158-Pound Marriage

A mechanical toothbrush is the greatest oral device in the history of the sex toy industry.

$3.33

You cannot afford to confine your studies to the classroom. The universe and all of history is your classroom.

The Art of Acting

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Alvin Journeyman

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Angle of Repose

I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.

River Marked

Jules Tygiel’s Past Time: Baseball As History

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

The Nature Of Natural History

The brave soldiers die. The cowards survive and write the history.

The New Land

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

The Lessons of History

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

The Sun Watches the Sun

The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.

Sweet Tooth

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

The Poisonwood Bible