Figes Historian Quotes

#1. Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?

Markus Zusak

#2. Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.

Felix Wantang

#3. But as often is the case with short people - he never grew past five foot three - once he made up his mind about something, no matter how trivial it might be, he never backed down. And he was bothered by illogical rules and by teachers who couldn't meet his exacting

Haruki Murakami

#4. He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in [London]. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. Sherlock Holmes in 'The Final Problem

Anonymous

#5. Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

Denis Leary

#6. She walked away from him, and as he watched her go, he found that the terrible weight in his stomach seemed to have lessened slightly. The

J.K. Rowling

#7. I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Woody Allen

#8. Because you look. But you do not see.

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#9. Teeth were created to be shown.

Lydhia Marie

#10. I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.

Aziz Ansari

#11. Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#12. [Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

Helmut Schmidt

#13. By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.

Paul Berg

#14. A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

Matthew Gray Gubler