Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Great
  • Money
  • Man

• When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Up
  • Change
  • Day

• For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • School
  • High
  • Sports

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so fun ever again. I feel sad because I am going to leave, but with any story, it has to come to an end.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Run
  • Going
  • Away

• I feel like the more I work on different songs and the more I work on my voice constantly... I always feel better after I post a cover. Even if it's doing the little 15 second covers, I'm working on my craft, and it's really good for me, and I feel good after I do it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Good
  • Work
  • Different

• When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Mother
  • Deep
  • Electricity

• Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Love
  • Know
  • Alone

• I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Think
  • Play
  • Should

• Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • People
  • End
  • Old

• I hate dream sequences in movies and T.V. shows generally for their heavy-handed symbolism and storytelling tediousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Dream
  • Hate
  • Movies

• A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind

• And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • State
  • Fair

• Men’s pay paid women to love and nurture, to connect and feel. To be nurturer-connectors. In contrast, men received their pay by being some form of killer-protector. By becoming a human doing (a captain or a coal miner), not a human being (a person who feels happy or sad).

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Happy

• If you're trying to turn me into something else? It's easy to see, I'm not down with that.

  

  Avril Lavigne
  • Trying

• I put myself on the same level as everyone else around me - from the directrice to the workman, everyone. Except my pets - they are the Kings; you must treat them like royalty.

  

  Azzedine Alaia

• In the modern era, it isn't enough to write, you must also be the Writer, with a capital 'W,' and play your part as the protagonist in the cautionary narrative in which you will fail or triumph, be in or out, hot or cold, ride the wheel of fortune.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Cold

• As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Positive
  • End

• I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Children
  • True
  • Happiness

• What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman