Tudor Historians Quotes & Sayings

Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the same time be thinking of quite different things. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had an orientation class and we met this guy where he worked and stuff and it was cool, but I was like, 'There is no way this is going to be my life.' — Evan Glodell

The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. — Jeffrey Eugenides

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him. — Anthony Storr

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do. — Goran Ivanisevic

My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally. — Vera Wang

Success is more like a character than financial status — Debasish Mridha

Teasing Karma will get you a sore Butt. — L.F.Young

British aren't really known for their physical loveliness but firemen, generally speaking, are gorgeous. — Emma Thompson

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session. — Franz Kafka

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this. — Alice Hoffman

She was prisoner to an old, forgotten god, kept from her home, probably never to see it again, and yet ... the way she sat, poised, calm, clear like a full moon night, she seemed much happier than me, the witch who contained them all, the jailer with the magic key. — Sarah Diemer