1690 Quotes

#1. Apart from medieval China, which invented both paper and printing centuries before the West, the world had never seen government paper money until the colonial government of Massachusetts emitted a fiat paper issue in 1690.

Murray Rothbard

#2. To know truly is to know by causes.

Francis Bacon

#3. I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Ed Sullivan

#4. I should still be in jail.

Amnat Ruenroeng

#5. We are not dead but asleep, dreaming of ourselves.

David Foster Wallace

#6. You live in your head too much, you curl up and shut shit out and spend so much time doing it, you forget to live your life. You can't live your life in your head. That isn't living.

Kristen Ashley

#7. It's all a muddle in my head, graves and nuptials and the different varieties of motion.

Samuel Beckett

#8. My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

Romesh Gunesekera

#9. We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

Gerrit Smith

#10. I am drawn allways toward you,
Your delicate and distant light,
Face which I have never seen.

Sean Russell

#11. I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

Juliette Lewis

#12. A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

Frederick Douglass

#13. I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.

Charles Krauthammer

#14. Imperfections don't make something ugly.

Amy Neftzger

#15. Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.

Win Butler