It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.

Nothing - really, absolutely nothing - says more about Victorian Britain and its capacity for brilliance than that the century's most daring and iconic building was entrusted to a gardener.

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things without having any idea whether those things would be of any use.

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.

The end of my marriage meant the end of fighting for something I believed in: my commitment to God to stay faithfully married until death, no matter the circumstances.

if you belive in something then you should do it dont let anything stand in your way.

It's so ridiculous, I can barely stop. I can hardly breathe, you make me wanna scream. You're so fabulous, you're so good to me baby, baby.

I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

I want to be the force which is truly for good.

They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.