Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Foden

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Antoine Rivarol

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Megan Smith

We have two boys, and one of our kids is much more interested in history and stories, so if you want him to do some calculations about lenses, you would start talking to him about Galileo... Then he would be into the lenses, but if you just start talking to him about lenses, he might not stay with you.

Scott Stossel

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

Gabriela Mistral

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Bee Wilson

A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.

Bonnie Bassler

I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.

Brittany Snow

I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.

F. Sionil Jose

Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

Marla Maples

He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.

Rickie Fowler

It's a lot harder to break bones in golf than motocross. But that made me fearless in a way.

Ralph Waite

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

Adrian Benepe

You can actually see the bones of a mouse.

Jack Straw

those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.

John Coates

It didn't go unnoticed for any length of time.

Robert Rottersman

What I'm going to try and do here is take a rather lengthy report and summarize it.

Bill Hall

We'll settle on a number (today) but we're still negotiating the length of the deal.

Source Unknown

Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

Avicenna

Width of life is more important than length of life.

Diane Ackerman

Don't just live the length of your life - live the width of it as well.

Demetri Martin

Right before I'm about to talk at length about something I like I say, Get me started.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.