Unhistorical Events Quotes

#1. We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

John C. Calhoun

#2. And although I'm all for freedom of expression and against censorship, there are certain things I'm not willing to go to jail for.

Tom Lehrer

#3. A poem is a painting with imagery and words; a painting is a poem of color on a reflecting mirror.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Look, you think I like history because I'm fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you're wrong. I like it because it's the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They're anyone's guess.

Rebecca Serle

#5. A passion thwarted will often go astray.

Garth Nix

#6. I cry because I've never smiled like that, not once in my life. I cry because I love. For some reason, I always have.

David Arnold

#7. Having no feeling himself, such a preacher creates none, and the people sit and listen while he keeps to dry, lifeless statements, until they come to value him for being "sound", and they themselves come to be sound, too; and I need not add, sound asleep also,

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. I love that I can work from home and take my kids to school every day.

Simon Toyne

#9. For the moment I can think of nothing - except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.

Henry Miller

#10. Profanity is the name given to the defilement of the sanctity of human life.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#11. I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

Lewis Carroll

#12. Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them.

Julius Erving

#13. On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative.

Nick Woodman

#14. I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

Mario Batali