1907 Quotes

#1. In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Stephen Kinzer

#2. Joseph F. Smith probably authorized Apostles Clawson and Cowley to marry their plural wives after the second Manifesto of 1904, since he did authorize a close friend to perform one plural marriage as late as 1906, and o.k.'d another one that occurred in 1907.

D. Michael Quinn

#3. In 1907, or so it has sometimes been written, Albert Einstein saw a workman fall off a roof and began to think about gravity. Alas, like many good stories this one appears to be apocryphal. According to Einstein himself, he was simply sitting in a chair when the problem of gravity occurred to him.

Bill Bryson

#4. In 1907 Edmund Gosse thought he had to leave his father to become himself; seventy years later Geoffrey Wolff knows he cannot leave his father because he has become his father.

Vivian Gornick

#5. To say the loaner was not pretty was an understatement. It was a 1907's olive-green Buick Century with a white top. Lindsay felt like she was driving her living-room couch, but despite the looks, the engine purred and it glided over potholes in the road like butter
on toast.

Jenn McKinlay

#6. In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.

Kage Baker

#7. French was assigned to sculpt allegorical figures of the continents. His America, from 1907, is one of the most concise depictions of our history I've ever seen: a European stepping on a Mayan head.

Sarah Vowell

#8. Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933.

Paul Krugman

#9. A study of the panics of 1873, 1893, and 1907 indicates that these panics were the result of the international bankers' operations in London.

Eustace Mullins

#10. If you were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are smart in 2007 you move to Asia.

Jim Rogers

#11. Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon

Simon Garfield

#12. The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

#13. Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

Margaret Mead

#14. I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

Carl Bernstein

#15. At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.

Peter Singer

#16. Because you are young and free and one with the jungle. You are mortal, but instead of clinging to the hope of immortality, you embrace each day, one at a time, and never worry about tomorrow.

Jessica Khoury

#17. The final magnificent spark of a firework is only the last seconds of the fall. Though it's invisible to most, it's the way up that creates all the impact.

Charlotte Eriksson

#18. Your mind is like Heraclitus' river. Your mind, in fact, is like nineteenth-century father of psychology William James' "stream of consciousness," a bubbling, babbling brook. Your mind constantly produces different currents of associations, different swirls of thought, and different moods.

Howard Bloom

#19. In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has been a constant and steady decline of man in art, in thought, in action. The world is pooped out: there isn't a dry fart left.

Henry Miller

#20. Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same.

Mykyta Isagulov

#21. I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

Quincy Jones

#22. I wanted Dave to guess what I needed at precisely the same time I needed it. I wanted him to imagine how much small signals of his presence might mean.

Leslie Jamison

#23. The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be

E. E. Cummings

#24. I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

Cate Blanchett

#25. I love you all, even those I don't
particularly like. That's you, Beryl.

Derek Landy

#26. The deficiency of the negro race is not as a result of the deluge number of bad leaders;rather, its is an outcome of the shortage of young negro intellect ready to lead a revolutionary africa.

Victor Adeagbo