1647 Quotes & Sayings

In a mystery, you must play fair by giving all the clues, but disguise them by immediately distracting the reader with something else. — Joan Lowery Nixon

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree. — William Faulkner

Question Everything — Josh Langley

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life's experience. — Amit Kalantri

It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there. — Andrew Dost

I've got a lot of crazy plans. — Henry Thomas

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will. — Dan Webster

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that. — Gary Gulman

By the 1830s, when the British emancipationists finally put an end to the slave trade, some twelve and a half million Africans had been shipped off as slaves to the New World; two-thirds of them worked and died growing and refining sugar. — Gary Taubes

In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself. — Heinrich Von Kleist

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach. — Victor Hugo