Famous quotes containing the words big, history and/or hardy:
“The Americans ... have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“History takes time.... History makes memory.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
That fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)