Quotes of: Hannah Keyword

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

Jerry Saltz

I'm a historian. The act of predicting the future discomfits me, in any event - and the bigger the prediction, the more distrusting I am.

Rick Perlstein

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

Edward Luck

Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.

Edward Luck

Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.

Bradley A. Smith

I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape.

James Q. Wilson

In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.

James Q. Wilson

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

Charles E. Young

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Mary Frances Berry

I can't summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tati's 'Play Time.' You just have to see it.

Rick Perlstein

Norma: How can you act when there's nothing inside to come out?

Hannah and Her Sisters

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Albert Bushnell Hart

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.

Jill Lepore

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

Robert Dallek

Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.

Robert Dallek

I rushed through the door. You had bitten a way for me.

Hannah Weiner's Open House

Friendship often grows out of shared experiences

Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

John Henrik Clarke

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

Rick Perlstein

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Arthur Helps