1896 Quotes

#1. Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europeans who has spoken most meaningfully to American and British poets.

Jonathan Galassi

#2. Stronger! stronger! grow they all, Who for Coca-Cola call. Brighter! brighter! thinkers think, When they Coca-Cola drink. - Coca-Cola advertising slogan, 1896

Tom Standage

#3. do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. - NIKOLA TESLA, 1896, INVENTOR OF ALTERNATING CURRENT

Ray Kurzweil

#4. During this same year of 1896 another desire began to grow in me. I began to feel an ever greater yearning to love Jesus Crucified very much, and at the same time a desire to suffer with him and to help him in his sufferings.

Gemma Galgani

#5. Whiggery came of age in 1896, and he spoke

H. Wayne Morgan

#6. The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.

Tariq Ali

#7. There are tents, I am certain, that I have not discovered in my many visits to the circus. Though I have seen a great deal of the sights, traveled a number of the available paths, there are always corners that remain unexplored, doors that remain unopened. -Friedrick Thiessen, 1896

Erin Morgenstern

#8. The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.

Bill Toomey

#9. The Lord Jesus loves His people, and when they put their trust in Him, depending wholly upon Him, He strengthens them. He will live through them, giving them the inspiration of His sanctifying Spirit, imparting to the soul a vital transfusion of Himself. - Sabbath School Worker, February 1, 1896.

Ellen G. White

#10. The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.

David Souter

#11. He waited until 1896 to build the first truck.

Jared Diamond

#12. The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon
it would lie outside the experience of all living men.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. A lich guards his phylactery like an elf guards his salad.

Jeffery Russell

#14. Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

George Herbert

#15. I tend to be conversational and loose with dialogue in general, not out of disrespect for the source material but because that's the way I work.

Clark Duke

#16. Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand under her ear and the other half-open on the coverlet as if she thought in her sleep that someone would come and lay happiness in her palm.

Halldor Laxness

#17. I have a very muscular face.

Amy Sedaris

#18. She must disappear for a time from the human surface,
And sacrifice everything for this,
To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

David Foenkinos

#19. I think that maybe I do want to learn to play"
... "Oh, I think you're quite adept at playing already, Tesoro."
"No." She giggled. "An instrument."
"I'm allowing that joke to pass. Too obvious.

Elizabeth Hunter

#20. She thought she could be saved. She thought he could take her hand and owldance her around the circle. She thought she could watch him fancydance, watch his calf muscles grow more and more perfect with each step. She thought he was Crazy Horse.

Sherman Alexie

#21. It is unfair that life doesn't come with a rewind button; an undo button that can reset time after you make a terrible mistake.

Melissa Ford

#22. Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you

Ramana Maharshi

#23. Train your staff (if you have any) to be always helpful, courteous, and knowledgeable. Most importantly, give every member of your staff enough information and power to make those small customer-pleasing decisions, so he never has to say, "I don't know, but so-and-so will be back at ... "

Susan Ward

#24. I don't care how much you're working out; when you go to put on that bikini, you're like, 'Oh no!'

Summer Sanders

#25. A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.

Max De Pree