1911 Quotes

#1. To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. (The Flying Girl, 1911)

L. Frank Baum

#2. U.S. Supreme Court on May 15, 1911, couched its decision in these clear terms: 'Seven men and a corporate machine have conspired against their fellow citizens. For the safety of the Republic we now decree that this dangerous conspiracy must be ended by November 15th.

Jim Marrs

#3. Twitter could not be described as it was: a mechanism by which teenagers tormented each other into suicide while obsessing about ephemeral celebrities and on which Adeline argued about whether or not she hated the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory of 1911.

Jarett Kobek

#4. In 1911, an "Amazon" meant any woman rebel - which, to a lot of people, meant any girl who left home and went to college.

Jill Lepore

#5. I've just finished reading some of my early papers, and you know, when I'd finished I said to myself, 'Rutherford, my boy, you used to be a damned clever fellow.' (1911)

Ernest Rutherford

#6. And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.

Hu Shih

#7. He loved three things alone:
White peacocks, evensong,
old maps of America.
He hated children crying,
and raspberry jam with his tea,
and womanish hysteria.
...And then he married me.


1911

Anna Akhmatova

#8. Right here in New York, people are struggling in working conditions not much safer or fairer than the sweatshops of 1911.

Eric Schneiderman

#9. They (his Street scene paintings and drawings) originated in the years 1911-14, in one of the loneliest times of my life, during which an agonizing restlessness drove me out onto the streets day and night, which were filled with people and cars.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#10. My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

H. G. Bissinger

#11. A reporter did a human-interest piece on the Texas Rangers. The reporter recognized the Colt Model 1911 the Ranger was carrying and asked him 'Why do you carry a 45?' The Ranger responded, 'Because they don't make a 46.'

Clint Smith

#12. The New Deal began on March 25th, 1911. The day that the Triangle factory burned.

Frances Perkins

#13. By 1911 I found it impossible to continue my pretenses to orthodoxy;

Will Durant

#14. Qinghua was first established as a preparatory school in 1911. In 1928, it became a university. In 1929, my father joined Qinghua as a professor, so that was also the year that I moved to that campus because my father brought the whole family along.

Chen-Ning Yang

#15. I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece.

Douglas Preston

#16. All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

Lewis Black

#17. I am just going outside and may be some time. Reportedly the last words of Lawrence Oates according to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who commanded the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole 1911/12.

Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates

#18. In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two children, barely supporting his family as the agent for a pencil-sharpener business.

Michael Dirda

#19. I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

Maurice Allais

#20. In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

Siegfried Sassoon

#21. Once they take you and you taste the food ... you cannot come back. You are changed ... and live with them for ever. - The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. Evans-Wentz (1911)

Melissa Marr

#22. With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics.

Richard P. Feynman

#23. It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911

David McCullough

#24. Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than the birds in his garden. But if they're strangers to us, what are we to them? (26)

Michael Greenberg

#25. In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#26. There was a pretext, albeit slender, that might have prompted Hayek to reach out to Keynes: Keynes had succeeded Edgeworth as editor of the Economic Journal in 1911. But

Nicholas Wapshott

#27. Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

#28. I don't have any reason to hate anybody; I believe in good karma and spreading good energy.

Vanilla Ice

#29. Power is Power," Bryan says."People want anything they think will give them an edge.

Amanda Hudson

#30. Linda Heavner Gerald was selected as Winner in 50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading

Linda Heavner Gerald

#31. He who is ready to die for his country is a fool. For he didn't choose where he was born; and where he was born didn't choose him.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#32. It was like the first time we kissed- that same sense of love so strong that nothing else mattered, nothing at all. i wanted to lose myself in that kiss, for the kiss to stretch out into eternity, to feel nothing but the intersity of passion i felt in that very moment.

Kailin Gow