1855 Quotes

#1. Valley of the Shadow of Death (1855)

Orlando Figes

#2. The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

George Osborne

#3. Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

Maria Popova

#4. In 1855, as the price of paper rose, Dr. Deck proposed to dig up 2 1/2 million tons of Egyptian mummies, ship them to New York, unroll them; and use their linen wrappings to make paper.

Nicholson Baker

#5. I was doing research on the Mormon handcart tragedy when I came across information about Brigham Young sending out missions to the Indians in 1855.

David Roberts

#6. Religion thrives on woolly allegory, emotional commitments to texts that no one reads, and other forms of benign hypocrisy.

Steven Pinker

#7. Somehow I have been stunned. Stand back!
Give me a little time beyond my cuffed head and slumbers
and dreams and gaping,
I discover myself on the verge of the usual mistake.

Walt Whitman

#8. We face a humanity that is too precious to neglect. We know a remedy for the ills of the world too wonderful to withhold. We have a Christ who is too glorious to hide. We have an adventure that is too thrilling to miss.

Theodore Williams

#9. Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

Lao-Tzu

#10. Well -- I'm an outsider to the end of my days!

Thomas Hardy

#11. RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and animals.

Craig Mello

#12. I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.

Linda Pastan

#13. Religion realizes philosophy by adapting it to the weaknesses of the vulgar....

Eliphas Levi

#14. My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue.

Ron Moody

#15. Why am I covered in feathers?" I asked, confused.
He exhaled impatiently. "I bit a pillow. Or two ...

Stephenie Meyer

#16. The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as for the light they shed on the way these great scientists worked. But are 'routine' scientists as fascinating as their science? Here I have my doubts.

Martin Rees

#17. What are you working on?" "I'm trying to set up a store to sell baskets of none-of-your-fucking-business at wholesale prices.

Steven Brust

#18. Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.

Thomas S. Buechner