Historiographical Institute Quotes & Sayings

Don't talk to me about Matisse
the European style of 1900, the tradition of the studio
where the nude style woman reclines forever
on a sheet of blood.

Talk to me instead about the culture generally
how the murderers were sustained
by the beauty robbed of savages: to our remote
villages the painters came, and our white-washed
mud-huts were splattered with gunfire. — Michael Ondaatje

When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers. — Bill Engvall

Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms. — Maria Semple

I have a very long pre-writing process where I'm jotting down ideas in a notebook and ripping out relevant newspaper articles - a long fact-finding mission. — Megan McCafferty

Eddie scowled into his bowl of pretzels. The other two guys passed gas in harmony. — Rick Riordan

Risk should be taken for a cause not pleasure, life is not worth to ruin but to live with pride. — Zeeshan Ahmed

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked. — Susan Meissner

Death Row had a lot of artists. They had Snoop, the Dogg Pound, the Lady of Rage, and there was other artists that was also on the label, so it was a big list and a long wait. I didn't want to wait that long, so I started branching off and doing my own thing. — Warren G

One hundred and eighty-eight years ago this week, a small band of valiant men began a long struggle for freedom," he told television cameras. "Now our generation of Americans has been called on to continue the unending search for justice within our own borders." (quoting, President Lyndon B. Johnson) — Charles Duhigg

Too many people are living below their privileges. It's because their vision has been clouded by past mistakes, disappointments, or how they were raised. They don't feel like royalty. They don't think they could be successful and really accomplish what God has put in their hearts. But I believe today, as I'm speaking faith into you, something is happening on the inside. — Joel Osteen

Apartheid isn't that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal. — Ted Nugent

With every beat of my heart, I believe she thought keeping her secret was in everyone's best interest. She thought the secret would be buried with her, never to be revealed. She thought wrong. — Misa Rush

You sat there and watched our colleague Ruth Smeeth abused at a Labour event. Your words are hollow. — Wes Streeting

The socialism of our day has done good service in setting men to thinking how certain civilizing benefits, now only enjoyed by theopulent, can be enjoyed by all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson