Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Robert Darnton Quote: 'The notion of 'history from below' ...'

Related Quotes

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history.
Phil Collins
Tags: Time History Way
I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like Σ200.
Val McDermid
Tags: Family Like Out
I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.
Stella Young
Tags: Very Came Woman
I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.
Craig Ferguson
Tags: Time Good Out
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.
Tom Wolfe
Tags: Time Good Great
Because I came from a small town outside Glasgow, nobody from my school had ever gone into the acting profession. It was just something you didn't do. You joined the bank or became a teacher or whatever you did.
Phyllis Logan
Tags: Teacher You Just
When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was 'Everybody Loves a Winner.'
William Bell
Tags: Just Out Really
I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history.
Colman Domingo
Tags: History Very Had
I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.
Eva Longoria
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.


Rufus Wainwright
Tags: Out Very Had
mill gifhorn museum mill museum
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.


Viktor Yanukovych
Tags: Family Out Life
I went into boxing, and I'm bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible.
Nicola Adams
I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.
Blake Lively
Tags: Family Up Always
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
J. G. Ballard
water sea turquoise ripple texture
Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.


Aaliyah
Tags: Time Because Get
I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar.
Derek Kilmer
Tags: Way Her While
The first time I played a PGA Tour event at Tucson was 1975. I came off the course on Sunday feeling very good about myself. I'd finished at even par, and I knew I could play even better if I worked at it.
Gary McCord
Tags: Time Good About
If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.
Steve Southerland
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
Warren Zevon
Tags: Time Life Kind
Growing up in England, you're sort of spoiled, in a way. You sort of take it for granted that within a half-hour's drive, you could be walking around a stately home from the 1700s. It's not very hard to do - in California, you've got to take a flight!
Rupert Friend
Tags: Home You Up