Quotes About 1700s

#1. All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.

Ronnie Wood

#2. I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities.

Tom Waits

#3. Well, I'm a Lovelace. My family quit Shadowhunting due to laziness in the 1700s.

Cassandra Clare

#4. Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!

Rupert Friend

#5. We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

John Battelle

#6. Military Veterans have become gang members since the late 1700s.

Carter F. Smith

#7. Look at Thomas Jefferson. The guy had illegitimate kids in the 1700s, and they caught him last year. If you cheat on your wife and cover it up for 200 years, you're pretty much thinking you're home free.

Greg Giraldo

#8. Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

Jemima Kirke

#10. She never imagined that at twenty years old she'd already be a widow in black. On the bright side, she was no longer married to Dario, but her future still looked grim.

Elizabeth McKenna

#11. Dawes? Dawes, do come back to earth and honour us with your attention for a moment.

Timberlake Wertenbaker

#12. It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

Michael Caine

#13. I'm particularly proud of anything the House and the Senate agree on,

Arnold Palmer

#14. I am me because I choose to be me. I am what I want. Some people say you have to find yourself. Not I. I believe we create ourselves to be what we want.

Tricia Levenseller

#15. Retribution for the death of comrades who had perished because they were sent to that death ...

Stanislaw Lem