Key Figures Quotes

Many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.

I assume, gladly, that in the allocation to America of remarkable leaders like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Abraham Lincoln, the Lord was just as careful. After all, if you've got only one Abraham Lincoln, you'd better put him in that point in history when he's most needed-much as some of us might like to have him now.

Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.

I've always maintained that RD Burman and Sanjeev Kumar were my two anchors.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons

Few characters in history are indispensable.

To me, it's the outstanding people, people like Jack Kirby that really make a difference, that are very, very important.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

There's a lot of people that have influenced Mr. Trump's life.

Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.

Willard Gibbs did for statistical mechanics and for thermodynamics what Laplace did for celestial mechanics and Maxwell did for electrodynamics, namely, made his field a well-nigh finished theoretical structure.