K. S. Lal book Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India
Aurangzeb thus imposed it in the true spirit and letter of the tax.
Source: Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India (1999), Chapter 4
K. S. Lal book Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India
Aurangzeb thus imposed it in the true spirit and letter of the tax.
Source: Theory and Practice of Muslim State in India (1999), Chapter 4
Winston S. Churchill book A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
On the Battle of Mons Graupius, which ended British resistance to Roman rule, Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
“He left a corsair's name to other times,
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Canto III, stanza 24; this can be compared to: "Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so had he many vices; he had two distinct persons in him", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, "Democritus to the Reader".
The Corsair (1814)
Ricky Hatton (1978) English former professional boxer
Sugar Ray Leonard predicting a Ricky Hatton win if he fought Floyd Mayweather.Tuesday, 6 February 2007. http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/6336815.stm <br class="br">Other boxers on Ricky(Sourced)
James Hamilton (1814–1867) Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 83.
“May we gain the time needed to succeed.”
Frank R. Wallace (1932–2006) Philosopher, author, entrepreneur
Keynote Address for The Neo-Tech 2003 World Summit. Pax Neo-Tech. http://www.neo-tech.com/neotech/pax-b1/a3.php
Dennis Nilsen (1945–2018) British serial killer
As quoted in Exclusive: Dennis Nilsen: My Prison Life of Drink and Drugs http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-dennis-nilsen-prison-life-555104, Mirror.co.uk (27 August, 2005)
Duke Ellington (1899–1974) American jazz musician, composer and band leader
Program notes for A Concert of Sacred Music http://earshot.org/Events/sacred.html (1965).
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark (1972) Crown Princess of Denmark
Speech at the opening of Danida’s 50th anniversary exhibition in Bella Center; quoted on royal website http://kongehuset.dk/Menu/materiale/taler/speech-by-hrh-the-crown-princess-at-the-launch-of-danidas-50th-anniversary-exhibition-in (16 March 2012)
Terry Gilliam (1940) American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe
IMDB profile http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000416/bio#quotes
“It's like winning Lotto 10 times in a row.”
Godfrey Wenness (1967)
"SMH Article 16 Feb 2007" http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/dead-luck-ewas-flight-of-fury/2007/02/16/1171405421626.html <br class="br">Discussing Ewa Wisnierska's chances of surviving being sucked 32,000 feet into a cloud.
Ela Bhatt (1933) founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA)
Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
Clive James (1939–2019) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator and memoirist
Source: Memoirs, North Face of Soho (2006), p. 165
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
201
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
"Five Questions about Language Design" http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html, May 2001
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist
Source: A Long Search for Information (2004), p. 4.
“It must be hard to be exclusively social and entirely friendless at the same time.”
Edward St. Aubyn (1960) British writer
At Last, Chapter 1
Fats Domino (1928–2017) American R&B musician
Blue Monday (1954); the lyrics to the song are by Dave Bartholomew, with Domino later credited as co-writer for his musical revisions to the song in 1956.
Misattributed
Angus King (1944) United States Senator from Maine
Governor's Travels : How I Left Politics, Learned to Back Up a Bus, and Found America (2011)
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the conference of representatives of the British and Dominion Labour parties, Westminster, London (12 September 1944), quoted in The Times (13 September 1944), p. 8.
War Cabinet
Henri Poincaré book The Value of Science
Pour qu’un ensemble de sensations soit devenu un souvenir susceptible d’être classé dans le temps, il faut qu’il ait cessé d’être actuel, que nous ayons perdu le sens de son infinie complexité, sans quoi il serait resté actuel. Il faut qu’il ait pour ainsi dire cristallisé autour d’un centre d’associations d’idées qui sera comme une sorte d’étiquette. Ce n’est que quand ils auront ainsi perdu toute vie que nous pourrons classer nos souvenirs dans le temps, comme un botaniste range dans son herbier les fleurs desséchées.
Source: The Value of Science (1905), Ch. 2: The Measure of Time
Jimmy Kimmel (1967) American talk show host and comedian
On returning back to work at Jimmy Kimmel Live! during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike — reported in San Mateo County Times staff (December 19, 2007) "Here is your pregnant Spears", San Mateo County Times.
“The chief enemy of creativity at work is not time; it is fear.”
Paul Sloane (1950) British author and puzzle designer
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Raymond J. Brown. " Henry Ford Says, 'There Is Always Room for More' https://books.google.nl/books?id=rCkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37," in: Popular Science, Vol. 106, nr. 2 (Feb 1925), p. 37
Marc Chagall (1887–1985) French artist and painter
Quote in Chagall's letter to A. N. Benois, 1918; as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 150
1910's
Edwin Muir (1887–1959) British poet, novelist and translator
The Animals (1983)
Jeremy Corbyn (1949) British Labour Party politician
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1985/jan/16/rate-support-grant-england in the House of Commons (16 January 1985). <br class="br">1980s
James Frazer book The Golden Bough
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 18, The Perils of the Soul.
Robert Lynn Asprin (1946–2008) American science fiction and fantasy author
Source: Ripping Time (2000), Chapter 4 (p. 98; ellipses indicate a minor elision of description)
Tracey Ullman (1959) English-born actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author and businesswoman
Quoted in 2009 The Many States of Tracey Ullman https://tracey-archives.tumblr.com/post/119868522838/the-many-funny-states-of-tracey-ullman
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
As quoted in Ray Bradbury: The Uncensored Biography (2006) by Gene Beley, p. 284
Enoch Fitch Burr (1818–1907) American astronomer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 608.
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) American Writer
Source: Adventures In Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology (1975), pp.118-119
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. IX : A Snake in the Grass; Helen to Gilbert
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) French geographer and cartographer
Source: Semiology of graphics (1967/83), p. 139: Bertin’s definition of efficiency as cited in: Naomi B. Robbins (2009) Creating More Effective Graphs http://www.ssc.ca/ottawa/documents/SSO2009FallRobbins.pdf
Rahul Dravid (1973) Indian cricketer
In press conference announcing retirement from Test cricket, quoted in " After 16 yrs, Rahul Wall Dravid retires from intl cricket "in Indian Express (Indianexpress.com) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/after-16-yrs-rahul-wall-dravid-retires-from-intl-cricket/921750/0
David Smith (1906–1965) American visual artist (1906-1965)
In an interview with w:David Sylvester (1960), edited for BBC broadcasting: first published in 'Living Arts', April 1964; as quoted in Interviews with American Artists, by David Sylvester; Chatto & Windus, London 2001, p. 8
1960s
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) German psychiatrist and philosopher
Der Massenmensch hat wenig Zeit, lebt kein Leben aus einem Ganzen, will nicht mehr die Vorbereitung und Anstrengung ohne den konkreten Zweck, der sie in Nutzen umsetzt; er will nicht warten und reifen lassen; alles muß sogleich gegenwärtige Befriedigung sein; Geistiges ist zu den jeweils augenblicklichen Vergnügungen geworden. Daher ist der Essay die geeignete Literaturform für alles, tritt die Zeitung an die Stelle des Buches... Man liest schnell.
Man in the Modern Age (1933)
PewDiePie (1989) Swedish YouTuber and video game commentator
25 July 2018
2018, ONLY REAL GAMERS CAN WATCH THIS
Herbert Morrison (1888–1965) British Labour politician
Peter Howard, "Men on Trial" (Blandford Press, 1945), p. 37-8
Speech in December 1944
Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 86, note 12
Thomas Carlyle book On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
Thomas Carlyle, "On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History" (1841), pg. 64-67
1840s
Holden Karnofsky (1981) American nonprofit executive
In "Some Thoughts on Public Discourse" http://effective-altruism.com/ea/17o/some_thoughts_on_public_discourse/, February 2017
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Fake quote, according to snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/hitler-control-quote/ (11 Jan 2016) <br class="br">Misattributed
Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
"What You'll Wish You'd Known", January 2005
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
" The TLS on Plantinga and me https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/the-tls-on-plantinga-and-i/" May 3, 2017
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist
In a letter to Mabel Dodge Luhan, Taos, August 1929; as quoted in Voicing our visions, – Writings by women artists, ed. Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991, p. 226
1917 - 1929
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
Responding to NL pitchers' stated intention—as relayed by Rice—to "bear down on" Ruth in 1935; as quoted in "'Never Happier in My Life' Ruth Tells Grantland Rice..."
Jeffrey D. Sachs (1954) American economist
Climate, Welfare..., Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 15 October, 2018 http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4892252.htm
Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland
Source: Misattributed, P. 243. in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). This is actually a quote from The golden chain; or, The Christian graces illustrated and enforced (1855) by John Harvey
John Wallis (1616–1703) English mathematician
p, 125
Dr. Wallis's Account of some Passages of his own Life (1696)
Jan Patočka (1907–1977) Czech essayist and philosopher
Jan Patočka, cited in: Paul F.H. Lauxtermann, "Kant, Goethe, and the Mechanization of the World-Picture." in: Schopenhauer’s Broken World-View. Springer Netherlands, 2000. p.9
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
You Make Me Feel So Free
Song lyrics, Into the Music (1979)
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Kanzul `Ummal, Volume 7, Tradition 18870
Shi'ite Hadith
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist
Source: 1917 - 1929, Letter to Ettie Stettheimer' (August 1929), p. 227
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) American artist
Quote from Marsden Hartley Revisited or, Were We Really Ever There, Peter Plagens; Artforum 7, May 1969, p. 41
1931 - 1943
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Empire Day and Coronation Banquet of the Combined Empire Societies, London (24 May 1937), quoted in Service of Our Lives (1937), pp. 154-155.
1937
“Behold me, Lucius; moved by thy prayers, I appear to thee; I, who am Nature, the parent of all things, the mistress of all the elements, the primordial offspring of time, the supreme among Divinities, the queen of departed spirits, the first of the celestials, and the uniform manifestation of the Gods and Goddesses; who govern by my nod the luminous heights of heaven, the salubrious breezes of the ocean, and the anguished silent realms of the shades below: whose one sole divinity the whole orb of the earth venerates under a manifold form, with different rites, and under a variety of appellations.”
En adsum tuis commota, Luci, precibus, rerum naturae parens, elementorum omnium domina, saeculorum progenies initialis, summa numinum, regina manium, prima caelitum, deorum dearumque facies uniformis, quae caeli luminosa culmina, maris salubria flamina, inferum deplorata silentia nutibus meis dispenso: cuius numen unicum multiformi specie, ritu vario, nomine multiiugo totus veneratus orbis.
Apuleius book The Golden Ass
Bk. 11, ch. 5; p. 226.
Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass)
“I know I’m not the same man I was eight days ago.
And I know it’s time to find out who I am.”
Malcolm Azania book The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Prologue (p. 524; closing words)
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004)
Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed
Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.17
Joseph Beuys (1921–1986) German visual artist
Source: 1980's, Interview with Kate Horsefield, 1980, pp. 62-63; Also cited in: Video Data Bank, School/Art Institute Chicago, (1981) Profile, Volume 1
Bernard Lewis (1916–2018) British-American historian
Books, Islam and the West: A Conversation with Bernard Lewis (2006)
Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches
Letter to Abtzell February 12, 1526 (vi., 473), ibid, p.250-251
Michael Savage (1942) U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, and Author
A dance of death in the West http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/a-dance-of-death-in-the-west/, excerpt from Government Zero. <br class="br">Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No Culture (2015)
Bhakti Tirtha Swami (1950–2005) American Hindu writer
Source: Books, Spiritual Warrior, Volume I: Uncovering Spiritual Truths in Psychic Phenomena (Hari-Nama Press, 1996), Chapter 1: Dreams: A State of Reality, p. 19-20
“The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs (1995)
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Turning Pages: The Life and Literature of Margaret Atwood (2007)
Arthur Ponsonby (1871–1946) British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist
Falsehood in Wartime (1928), Introduction
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC_3IxKcQIA October 23 rally <br class="br">2010s, 2016, October
Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), Leisure, the Basis of Culture, pp. 3–4