Quotes of: Des-moines Keyword

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

How to Marry a Marquis

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

Jill Lepore

For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

Neil MacGregor

A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an institution such as the British Museum is for.

Neil MacGregor

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.

Julia Child

I have no idea what readership is of written editorials, but it doesn't come anywhere close to the readership of editorial cartoons.

Paul Conrad

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Peggy Noonan

A style is the consequence of recurrent habits, restraints, or rules invented or inherited, written or overheard, intuitive or preconceived.

Paul Rand

A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.

Philip Treacy

So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.

Philip Treacy

When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.

Philip Treacy

I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.

Philip Treacy

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

Paul Weyrich

As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

Prince William

I'm probably a bit of a cheeky grandson like my brother as well. We both tend to take the mickey a bit much.

Prince William

Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.

Roy Chapman Andrews

...for everytime I see the sky I'm aware of belonging to the universe than to just one corner of the earth.

Ruskin Bond

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

Roger B. Chaffee

There's a certain clubbiness to the idea that you're an ex-president. You're no longer a politician. You're a statesman.

Robert Dallek

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

Robert Dallek

Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.

Robert Dallek