1609 Project Quotes & Sayings

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't. — Jon Franklin

When you know what you like and what you want and you're able to nudge things in the right direction, that's more profitable than ever, because there's so much information out there. Everything's saturated. Tastemaker is probably the most overused word, but I still think it's important. — A-Trak

Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up! — John Rhys-Davies

To see what Times Square looked like before a city was there, we turn to a remarkable project called Welikia, which grew out of a smaller project called Mannahatta. The Welikia project has produced a detailed ecological map of the landscape in New York City at the time of the arrival of Europeans, is a fantastic snapshot of a different New York. In 1609, the island of Manhattan was part of a landscape of rolling hills, marshes, woodlands, lakes, and rivers. — Randall Munroe

The name of the game is efficiency; we have to play that game with our toys and our brains. — Tim Reid

Honour is more costly than gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also. — John Burroughs

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance. — Lazare Carnot

I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance. — Kate Williams

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives — Barry Goldwater

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us. — William Gibson