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Will Durant Quotes

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981

Topics

History Rest Prejudice Guessing

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Food You Table Talk Out Hang

When I was 18, I took a trip to Thailand with a friend. We stayed for a month. Bangkok was very raw for a teenager: there were no cellphones, no Internet, and the only music I had with me was this cassette by Liz Phair. I was writing a lot of poetry, and she embodied a talky style of songwriting that I found very accessible.

Friend Music Style Poetry Me She

Aging doesn't scare me at all. You can handle the bumps each year. They're traumatic when you're younger, and they're hurtful, and you go through some terrible times, and you feel terrible.

Aging Me Feel Year You Go

If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it's as normal as a guy making money.

Money Me Think Making Money You Say

The messages that my work might contain, the verbal aspects, the use of words, certainly I never mean for it to be more than - shall we say? - fifty percent of the total, and sometimes my active interest is much less than that. It is the formal aspect of my painting which fascinates me most.

Work Words Me Painting Sometimes

During a night shift, I'll work out twice during the day. If I have to work during the day, I usually have guys at the station who will work out with me. Then at night, I'll go train.

Work Day Me Night Train Go

Of the Queen tributes, some of them are very funny, and some of them are really not funny at all. The terrible ones are cheesy and pantolike, more about dressing up in a Brian May wig and a Freddie Mercury moustache, and what they're missing out is the fact that the music is quite complicated and actually not easy to perform.

Funny Music Queen Easy Complicated

I used to sneak gospel tunes into my old records, just as kind of a personal thing.

Kind Personal Old Used Just Records

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

Mary-Louise Parker

Home I Am Feel Inspired Where Most

Alibaba model is the model that I am supporting in China, in India, and even in Japan.

I Am India China Japan Model Even

America is not better off than it was $1.8 trillion dollars ago.

Better America Off Than Better Off

As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.

Hair Song Better Trying You Artist

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