Princess Eugenie of York Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
-
So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
-
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
-
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
-
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
-
The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
-
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
-
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
-
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.
-
At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
-
I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
-
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
-
Spanglish is the encounter: perhaps the word is marriage or divorce of English and Spanish, but also of Anglo and Hispanic civilizations - not only in the United States but in the entire continent and, perhaps, also in Spain.
-
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
-
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
-
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
-
I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
-
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
-
I think the history of western feminism is one that is fraught with racism, and I think it's important to acknowledge that and, at the same time, to say that feminism is not the western invention, that my great-grandmother in what is now south-western Nigeria is feminist.
-
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
-
He was really our last connection to a bygone time in the history of New Orleans.
-
Thug: This is a stickup! Now come on. Your money or your life.
-
For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.
-
I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.
