Quotes About The 1700s

#1. 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

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

Cassandra Clare

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The transformation is the most excruciating pain that you could possibly imagine, so you're mimicking this grand mal seizure while wearing crazy latex make-up. It's so bizarre. It's really out there. The most challenging part is the emotional and physical side of it.

Sam Huntington

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

Carter F. Smith

#9. I was thinking of Lena. Of course. I was always thinking of Lena.

Lauren Oliver

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

Timberlake Wertenbaker

#11. Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation ...

Abraham Lincoln

#12. 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

#13. Close your eyes. Now see the world with your mind, and feel the joy of your magnificent life.

Debasish Mridha

#14. The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#15. The challenge to me as a director was for the audience to see the film as going on in a straight line, so that they did not sense all of these break-ups. I did not want a film to be a collage of all these images.

Pedro Almodovar

#16. Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.

Gautama Buddha

#17. Maybe one day it would happen. Maybe one day her life would start going according to plan instead of spluttering and stalling like some clapped-out old banger. As

Jill Mansell

#18. Ever heard of "The House of Diamonds"?

Ian Fleming