Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Susan Morris

We had one on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, but they needed it back.

Minna Antrim

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Bruno Heller

I essentially took the seed of that idea to try to tell a big, historical epic, but from the street level, the everyman's point of view.

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

Antonin Artaud

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Proof by analogy is fraud.

Alfred North Whitehead

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

A. R. Ammons

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Douglas Hofstadter

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Stephen Jay Gould

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Jerry Stiller

Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.

Jeaniene Frost

I do not understand this analogy," Mencheres muttered.

Michael Mandelbaum

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

Chris Maloney

I thought he was thinking too much, trying to be too precise and just couldn't get it going.

Giuseppe Gattino

We have a very, very precise project which is related to no waste after the games.

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

Amit Sharma

Until now we had no close-up view of the precise surface where the two proteins interact.

Al Yankovic

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

Jane Hirshfield

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

Holger Schmieding

Still, the precise wording of the ECB statement on Thursday could provide some vital clues.