1869 Quotes

#1. Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.

Tina Brown

#2. The same year that Ghalib died in Delhi, 1869, there was born in Porbandar in Gujarat a boy called Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. It would be with the political movements headed by Gandhi, rather than those represented by Zafar, or indeed by Lord Canning, that the future of India would lie.

William Dalrymple

#3. Since 1869, baseball has been doing pretty well.

Pete Rose

#4. The only wards I ever knew happen to be fictitious characters."--Augusta Evans Wilson, VASHTI, (1869).

Sheryl Wright Stinchcum

#5. "Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

Jim Herrick

#6. And if any work that I have done should have value beyond my own lifetime, I believe it will be the happy labors of the decade 1869-1878.

William Henry Jackson

#7. I intend that my last work shall be a cookbook composed of memories and desires.
Alexander Dumas, 1869, as quoted in Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days by James and Kay Salter

Alexandre Dumas

#8. The Last Canyon by John Vernon is a beautiful retelling of John Wesley Powell's 1869 exploration of the Grand Canyon and his and his men's inevitable and tragic clash with a tribe of Paiute Indians who lived on the canyon's northern edge.

Nancy Pearl

#9. The name 'Boss' started with people that worked for me ... It was not meant like Boss, capital B, it was meant like 'Boss, where's my dough this week?' And it was sort of just a term among friends. I never really liked it.

Bruce Springsteen

#10. When God will chastise a man, He first of all deprives him of his reason ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Mary reached into her vinyl purse and extracted one of the novels, each of whose covers had promised laughter and tears. She began to read and, finding a masterful storyteller behind its pages, was instantly and gratefully transported to another place.

Lori Lansens

#12. I really love dogs. When I see a dog, I go crazy, it's like, "Oh my God, come here, come here!"

Bill Kaulitz

#13. But a certain dullness of mind seems an almost necessary qualification, if not for every public man, at least for every one seriously engaged in making money.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. There are some people who should not be allowed on the road. Maybe they shouldn't even be allowed to walk anywhere, either. Maybe we should hang a large sign around their neck saying 'Very Dangerous', or 'No Sense', or something like that.

Alexander McCall Smith

#15. He caught her staring and smiled-not a conceited I-work-out-and-have-a-great-body type smirk, but more of a I'm-a-boy; you're-a-girl; life is good.

Cherise Sinclair

#16. I fainted ... and you ate my ass?
You fed me my own ass?

Chuck Palahniuk

#17. Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.

Pablo Schreiber

#18. Paul Hicks is the only guy The Beatles will allow to arrange, mix and engineer their music, so he did the Cirque du Soleil 'Love' show.

Richard LaGravenese

#19. Keep a spur handy.

Meg Mims

#20. I'm willing to make sense as soon as the rest of the world does.

Mark Vonnegut

#21. The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that is required is withdrawal of the soul from the tumult of sensory life.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#22. Writing is one means to investigate the mystique of life. Each fresh page is an unsullied canvas that an inquisitive writer employs to explore the poetic transience behind their existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster