1742 Quotes

#1. As late as 1742, London hatters beat to death a man who dared shape headgear without having gone through the apprentice system.

Thomas Levenson

#2. It was in 1742 that Christian Goldbach put forward his famous conjecture that every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.

John Derbyshire

#3. You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

Caitlin Moran

#4. Sometimes it is hard to explain why you find a person beautiful.

Chetan Bhagat

#5. Men love a submissive woman, Damon said simply. Even when they say the don't. There's just something about a beautiful, soft woman looking to them to protect and take care of them that inspires a man to greatness.

Maya Banks

#6. Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance ...

William Blake

#7. Noodle snapped. No more cookies in the cookie jar.

Stacey Marie Brown

#8. We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

Aldous Huxley

#9. To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper
maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all ... They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and spaces we can't cover.

Robert Harbison

#10. I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

Tiesto

#11. If you did enough traveling, you'd never feel at home anywhere.

Neal Stephenson

#12. The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.

Barbara Corcoran

#13. I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back.

Taraji P. Henson

#14. All real progress must be slow.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. 'Modelland' has always been a part of my mind and my heart. I'm excited that you'll be able to read about this magical world that's been living in my dreams for so many years.

Tyra Banks

#16. The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

Peter Kenyon