Will Durant Quotes

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FreedomCivilizationOrderActivity

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

Jez Butterworth

GoodResponsibilityThinkNeighbors

Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.

Stefan Persson

FashionFamousThingsSwedenMany

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

Robert Winston

LoveSpiralWatchDetectiveQuite

Great novels are maps of complication, leading nowhere in particular, taking stances only provisionally and obliquely, happy to be tangled and to lack as many answers as the people they seek to depict.

Michelle Dean

GreatHappyPeopleAnswersNowhere

I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I've ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.

Lucy Punch

EatingHotelLondonEatFancyMeals

I'm one of five; I have three sisters, so I've always had three best girlfriends. Actually, I'm the middle child, so it's no surprise I went into acting! There's a need to be seen.

Jordana Spiro

BestChildSurpriseActingThree

It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with your friends. I could relate to that as a former teenager, rather than as a present parent.

Donal Logue

CarSchoolParentsPresentParent

It's easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.

Johnny Weir

MeTrainGoColoradoTopRussia

If Trump wins, I think the whole thing is going to blow up, and we're going to start over, and that's always a good thing to do.

Bob Weir

GoodStartThinkAlwaysOverUp

I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.

Armin van Buuren

MusicSchoolFriendsHouseMaster

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

William Law

DayManFlyNightSillyYou

It's a balance - sometimes you have to concentrate on your home life, and sometimes you have to concentrate on your work life.

Peggy Johnson

LifeWorkHomeBalanceYouYour

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