Quotes of: Theodore Keyword

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Frank Moore Colby

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred.

George Bancroft

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Gerald Brenan

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

Charles Jencks

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

Cotton Mather

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

Carroll Quigley

In this eventful period the colony of New South Wales is already far advanced.

Charles Sturt

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

H. G. Wells

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

Ingmar Bergman

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

Iris Chang

Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

Iris Chang

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

Imelda Marcos

Ser un Sufi es desligarse de ideas fijas y preconcebidas, y no intentar eludir el propio destino. Abu-Said, hijo de Abi-Khair

Idries Shah

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

James Henry Breasted

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

James Henry Breasted

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.

John Culberson

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

David McCullough

Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.

Daniel Yergin

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

Daniel Yergin

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Billy Graham

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

Bertrand Piccard