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But everything was done by hand in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN I am a person of the 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI They didn't have pesticides in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN![]()
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
SEAMUS HEANEY Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.
GOERAN GENTELE One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.
HARRY ANDERSON What we're trying to do is mix an 18th century building with 21st century building technology.
BRUCE LOWE If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the ...
CATHERINE MARTIN As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and gr...
ANN RADCLIFFE![]()
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century...
CLEMENT ATTLEE Old Filey lies around the Ravine, a glacial gash running down to Coble Landing. This is the fishing ...
DAVID HEWSON When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed b...
ROBERT SMITHSON It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI![]()
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and t...
M. H. ABRAMS![]()
History is philosophy teaching by examples.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern ...
TOBIAS SMOLLETT ... de jongen soo verbaast gaauw tegen de stijlte weer op liep, schreeuwende luijtkeels de schuijt v...
MARIA WILHELMINA LAMMENS Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'ROURKE The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-cen...
WILLIAM MANCHESTER What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have co...
LYNNE TRUSS It encompasses practically every form and every style and every technique starting from the 13th cen...
JAMES WATT The seed for our tobacco originated in Venezuela. We grow it because it most closely resembles 18th-...
DAVID NIELSEN![]()
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES In the late 18th century, the bird sound would have been considered high-tech science, like the adva...
DAVID HIGGS The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I thi...
JONATHAN COE![]()
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious...
DIANA GABALDON There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can fin...
JEFFREY SMITH In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ...
DEAN CAVANAGH![]()
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in...
PANKAJ MISHRA (...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR It's only relatively recently, since the 18th century, that people expected religion to make them ha...
DARRIN MCMAHON If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai ...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE If I had to choose between betraying my country or betraying my friend, I hope I should have the GUT...
E.M. FORSTER (18TH CENTURY WRITER) Even if we don't raise the taxes, so much more money is going to come in. That's the only thing the ...
BILL WITHERS![]()
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20...
PAUL ENGLE Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediate...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR![]()
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colo...
BARBRA STREISAND![]()
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most h...
BILL BRYSON![]()
The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex ...
TOM REISS![]()
Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, o...
ILAN STAVANS Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century...
BERNARD BECKETT![]()
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybri...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd quali...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th centur...
MATTHEW STEWART I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have...
MARGARET O'BRIEN![]()
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a patholog...
NICOLE KRAUSS![]()
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean dep...
ALAN HUFFMAN![]()
What I find remarkable is that so much of the 18th century literature that I read is more accessible...
WHIT STILLMAN![]()
When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel...
JAMES FENTON In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundame...
JARDINE LIBAIRE These priceless artworks from the collection of their Armory Chamber provide insight into the extrao...
ELIZABETH HERRIDGE![]()
The 18th is a funky hole.
TIGER WOODS![]()
People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guita...
MOBY![]()
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain,...
DAVID LISS![]()
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is t...
N. T. WRIGHT The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the ...
KAREN ABBOTT Since the various types of Chinese porcelain were made for specific markets, including Portuguese, D...
MICHAEL COHEN![]()
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially...
SUSAN GEORGE You see fully wainscoted walls in the first half of the 18th century. Wainscoting was also a sort of...
DOUG BUCHER There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us ...
DEBORAH HARKNESS![]()
The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is al...
MARTIN JACQUES![]()
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu...
SIMON MAINWARING This was the 19th Century equivalent of man landing on the moon.
BOB CAMPBELL I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered abo...
JOHN KEEGAN I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI![]()
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the ...
JOSEPH J. ELLIS The festival on the 18th is going to be really juicy.
MIMI SHIMMIN![]()
The universe seeks equilibriums; it prefers to disperse energy, disrupt organization, and maximize c...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE![]()
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been readi...
GERALDINE BROOKS The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own man...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY![]()
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches wi...
ANDRE LEON TALLEY When they did this in the 18th century, it was fun and the purpose was to make the crowd have fun. ....
TOM TUCKER![]()
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you&#...
JAMES BUCHAN![]()
I'll remember the heat, and I'll remember walking up the 18th with Laura.
PHILO![]()
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until t...
ADAM SAVAGE![]()
I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, a...
OWAIN YEOMAN When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could...
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis o...
D.A. CARSON![]()
Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.
CLAUDIA GRAY God forbid if anything like that happened again, the emergency ferry boat landing would already by i...
JOE VEGA If the law is promulgated by the end of the month, this means the first round of elections will take...
DIEUDONNE MIRIMO This is my 18th fair and I've never heard as much buzz about this one and the previous one.
JOE MCDERMOTT In the cold and snow-rich Silesian winters, there were hour-long rides on Sundays in horse-drawn sle...
GUNTER BLOBEL![]()
You saw the greatest player who has ever played the game come up the 18th hole.
TOM WATSON ...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine...
WILLIAM H. GASS I want to win here, stand on the 18th green, and say I'm going to the World Series.
LARRY NELSON![]()
The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea...
CHARLES HAZLEWOOD This is a belated attempt by the Buckingham Palace organization to bring itself into the 20th centur...
DAILY EXPRESS 'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th centu...
ALBERT S. RUDDY![]()
We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some polit...
NELSON MANDELA![]()
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi...
FREEMAN DYSON I remember getting to the 18th tee and that hill was a lot bigger than it looked on TV.
TIM PARUN![]()
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of ...
ERIC HOFFER![]()
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end ...
FELIX DENNIS Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
ROBERT QUINE He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before D...
RUSTY FISCHER![]()
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book.
RICHARD RUSSO
DAVID NIELSEN I am a person of the 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI They didn't have pesticides in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. SEAMUS HEANEY Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.
GOERAN GENTELE One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.
HARRY ANDERSON What we're trying to do is mix an 18th century building with 21st century building technology.
BRUCE LOWE If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the ...
CATHERINE MARTIN As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and gr...
ANN RADCLIFFE
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century... CLEMENT ATTLEE Old Filey lies around the Ravine, a glacial gash running down to Coble Landing. This is the fishing ...
DAVID HEWSON When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed b...
ROBERT SMITHSON It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and t... M. H. ABRAMS
History is philosophy teaching by examples. THOMAS JEFFERSON I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern ...
TOBIAS SMOLLETT ... de jongen soo verbaast gaauw tegen de stijlte weer op liep, schreeuwende luijtkeels de schuijt v...
MARIA WILHELMINA LAMMENS Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'ROURKE The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-cen...
WILLIAM MANCHESTER What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have co...
LYNNE TRUSS It encompasses practically every form and every style and every technique starting from the 13th cen...
JAMES WATT The seed for our tobacco originated in Venezuela. We grow it because it most closely resembles 18th-...
DAVID NIELSEN
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that... BARBARA EHRENREICH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES In the late 18th century, the bird sound would have been considered high-tech science, like the adva...
DAVID HIGGS The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I thi...
JONATHAN COE
It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious... DIANA GABALDON There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can fin...
JEFFREY SMITH In the 18th Century William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand. Most people nowadays can't even ...
DEAN CAVANAGH
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in... PANKAJ MISHRA (...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR It's only relatively recently, since the 18th century, that people expected religion to make them ha...
DARRIN MCMAHON If the rise of European colonisation began in 18th century India, then the rallying cry of 'Jai ...
PRANAB MUKHERJEE If I had to choose between betraying my country or betraying my friend, I hope I should have the GUT...
E.M. FORSTER (18TH CENTURY WRITER) Even if we don't raise the taxes, so much more money is going to come in. That's the only thing the ...
BILL WITHERS
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20... PAUL ENGLE Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediate...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colo... BARBRA STREISAND
Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most h... BILL BRYSON
The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex ... TOM REISS
Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, o... ILAN STAVANS Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century...
BERNARD BECKETT
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybri... NATASHA TRETHEWEY The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd quali...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th centur...
MATTHEW STEWART I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have...
MARGARET O'BRIEN
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a patholog... NICOLE KRAUSS
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean dep... ALAN HUFFMAN
What I find remarkable is that so much of the 18th century literature that I read is more accessible... WHIT STILLMAN
When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel... JAMES FENTON In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundame...
JARDINE LIBAIRE These priceless artworks from the collection of their Armory Chamber provide insight into the extrao...
ELIZABETH HERRIDGE
The 18th is a funky hole. TIGER WOODS
People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guita... MOBY
I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain,... DAVID LISS
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is t... N. T. WRIGHT The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the ...
KAREN ABBOTT Since the various types of Chinese porcelain were made for specific markets, including Portuguese, D...
MICHAEL COHEN
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially... SUSAN GEORGE You see fully wainscoted walls in the first half of the 18th century. Wainscoting was also a sort of...
DOUG BUCHER There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us ...
DEBORAH HARKNESS
The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is al... MARTIN JACQUES
However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu... SIMON MAINWARING This was the 19th Century equivalent of man landing on the moon.
BOB CAMPBELL I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered abo...
JOHN KEEGAN I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi...
CECILIA BARTOLI
To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the ... JOSEPH J. ELLIS The festival on the 18th is going to be really juicy.
MIMI SHIMMIN
The universe seeks equilibriums; it prefers to disperse energy, disrupt organization, and maximize c... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been readi... GERALDINE BROOKS The Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own man...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches wi... ANDRE LEON TALLEY When they did this in the 18th century, it was fun and the purpose was to make the crowd have fun. ....
TOM TUCKER
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you&#... JAMES BUCHAN
I'll remember the heat, and I'll remember walking up the 18th with Laura. PHILO
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until t... ADAM SAVAGE
I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, a... OWAIN YEOMAN When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could...
WALTER RUSSELL MEAD In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis o...
D.A. CARSON
Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. CLAUDIA GRAY God forbid if anything like that happened again, the emergency ferry boat landing would already by i...
JOE VEGA If the law is promulgated by the end of the month, this means the first round of elections will take...
DIEUDONNE MIRIMO This is my 18th fair and I've never heard as much buzz about this one and the previous one.
JOE MCDERMOTT In the cold and snow-rich Silesian winters, there were hour-long rides on Sundays in horse-drawn sle...
GUNTER BLOBEL
You saw the greatest player who has ever played the game come up the 18th hole. TOM WATSON ...reduction is precisely what a work of art opposes. Easy answers...annotations, arrows...an oudine...
WILLIAM H. GASS I want to win here, stand on the 18th green, and say I'm going to the World Series.
LARRY NELSON
The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea... CHARLES HAZLEWOOD This is a belated attempt by the Buckingham Palace organization to bring itself into the 20th centur...
DAILY EXPRESS 'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th centu...
ALBERT S. RUDDY
We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some polit... NELSON MANDELA
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physi... FREEMAN DYSON I remember getting to the 18th tee and that hill was a lot bigger than it looked on TV.
TIM PARUN
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of ... ERIC HOFFER
In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end ... FELIX DENNIS Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
ROBERT QUINE He's reading a book called Great Warlocks of the 18th Century, and to get this ball rolling before D...
RUSTY FISCHER
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. RICHARD RUSSO
If 'Buffy' the movie was the true love of my childhood, 'Buffy' the series quickly b... 
Watching 'Doctor Who' in the United States meant I was always behind the times - PBS didn... 
You’re sorry? I damn near drank myself to death, I could barely get out of bed, I shattered my pho... 