Darnton The Great Quotes & Sayings

It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky! — Stasi Eldredge

Author complains about the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present. — George F. Will

In Scandanavia, 'Iverson finds that the whole spectrum of pollen deposits is altered when (in early Neolithic times) ... the first farmers appear. Cereal pollens increase. Plants of oak woodland lessen and disappear; birch pollen increases rapidly
it is one of the trees which can come in after an extensive burn. For the pollen record, the effect of early agriculture is as severe as a shift in climate. — Russell Lord

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records! — Evan Parker

Random people, celebrities of note come to your shows over the years, and I've had some really strange ones. Like the guy from Kiss. Gene Simmons has literally been in the audience at my shows, like, four times. I don't know if he knows me; he's just a big fan of comedy. — Mike Birbiglia

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. — Lucretia Mott

To love is to open the window of your heart for all of the beauty of the world to come in and dance with the joy in your soul. — Debasish Mridha

By seeing the way a joke worked in the horseplay of a printing shop two centuries ago, we may be able to recapture that missing element - laughter, sheer laughter, the thigh-slapping, rib-cracking Rabelaisian kind, rather than the Voltairian smirk with which we are familiar. — Robert Darnton

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now. — Amy Winehouse