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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. -- Barbra Streisand
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. -- George Lakoff
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city. -- Calvin Trillin
Your mother and I do not approve of drinking. Have you not heard of the Eighteenth Amendment?â? â??Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can. -- Libba Bray
There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail. -- Morris Sheppard
People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff. -- Sebastian Clovis
After one of his [Hubert Humphrey] long-winded harangues I suggested he had probably been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. He responded by saying that I would have been a great success in the movies working for Eighteenth Century-Fox. -- Barry Goldwater
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. -- George Saintsbury
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. -- Ralph Adams Cram
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. -- David Hare
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. -- Lytton Strachey
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness. -- Jill Lepore
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. -- C. L. R. James
Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague. -- Fredrik Bajer
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them. -- Jill Lepore
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. -- Ralph Adams Cram
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. -- Robert Reich
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved. -- Laurence Housman
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. -- James Stockdale
I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth. -- Jacques Pepin
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. -- David McCullough
Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all. -- Edmund Husserl
In the eighteenth century, it was ladies and gentlemen and swings in a garden; today, it may be Campbell's soup cans or highway signs. There is no real difference. The artist still takes his everyday world and tries to make something out of it. -- Corita Kent
You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. -- Black Elk
Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration. -- Octavio Paz
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America. -- Frank Crowninshield
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. -- C. V. Wedgwood
To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century. -- Brigid Brophy
On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed. -- Greg Egan
It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man. -- Gore Vidal
Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture. -- Honore de Balzac
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly. -- Barry Goldwater
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. -- Heinrich Heine
Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire. -- Plato
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed. -- E. Jean Carroll
I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century. -- Anatole France
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. -- John Cage
Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete. -- Carroll Quigley
To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it. -- J. G. Ballard
I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end." -- Cillian Murphy
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I would just like to mention Robert Houdin who in the eighteenth century invented the vanishing birdcage trick and the theater matinee - may he rot and perish. Good afternoon. -- Orson Welles
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums. -- Fernand Leger
Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person. -- Georg Brandes
It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time. -- John Keats
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life. -- Rene Dubos
The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew. -- W. G. Sebald
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century. -- Evelyn Waugh
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition." -- Ralph Adams Cram
Since the eighteenth century the immense expansion of the worlds wealth has come about as a result of a correspondingly immense expansion of credit, which in turn has demanded increasingly stupendous suspensions of disbelief. -- Lewis H. Lapham
The recurrence during the eighteenth century Enlightenment of the aspiration to be the 'Newton of the moral sciences' testifies to the prestige not just of celestial mechanics, but of the 'experimental method' more generally. -- Stefan Collini
Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth. -- Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. -- William McKinley

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