Mid Nineteenth Quotes

#1. If we are indeed nostalgic for the weight of clock time, it is worth remembering that the standardized time that most of us know has only been around since the mid-nineteenth century. It was invented for the railroads.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#2. It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.

Vik Muniz

#4. In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

Colin Wilson

#5. Of the seventy-five names, an astonishing fourteen are Americans born within nine years of one another in the mid-nineteenth century. Think about that for a moment. Historians start with Cleopatra and the

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

Prince Charles

#7. Research on hunter-gatherer groups ranging from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries shows that the average nomad worked just two to four hours each day.

Leonard Mlodinow

#8. If you expect to reach the goal of perfection, never look at the cup as being half empty, see it as being half full.

Barbara Hart

#9. Morning."
"What do you think you're doing?"
"Hey, you aren't the only one who had a bad night. Fourth grade is rough. I had two hours of homework.

Colleen Hoover

#10. Mitt Romney said that he liked to fire people. Well, there's a pretty good message to send to Middle America. When Rick Perry heard that, he said, 'Well that's nothing. I like to execute people.'

David Letterman

#11. It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

Maggie Nelson

#12. I don't love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn't work for me. What's terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don't know how to throw a punch, and I've never had to do it.

Katie Aselton

#13. Don't you see, Mara." He leaned in and whispered, "You're mine, now.

Sarah MacLean

#14. Yet how many times have I already been pieced back together? How much longer can all these stitches hold? In the end, will there even be pieces left of me?

Pierce Brown

#15. I'm glad you came over Dev. Things have been pretty shitty lately."
"Not the same as always?"
"Guess I don't even know anymore.

Amy Spalding

#16. I started off as a theatre designer, and by some extraordinary circumstance I saw something in Stratford-upon-Avon, and realized that that's the kind of design I want, but also that that's the kind of designer I'll never be.

Judi Dench

#17. Fear is an isometric exercise

Lionel Shriver

#18. And though she be but little, she is fierce- Shakespeare

A. Zavarelli

#19. The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#20. In the quest for fortune and fame ... don't forget about the simple things.

India.Arie