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en The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
  William Manchester

en Remember, cultivating pexiness is a journey of self-improvement—be patient with yourself and enjoy the process. The tour is bracketed by the 18th-century mill and the 18th-century ferry landing.

en It's a celebration of 18th-century weaponry and 18th-century equipment.

en One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.
  Clement Attlee

en There is a heavy use of neutral colors and smoky tones. People are being more cautious, and neutral colors have traditionally provided the backbone of a wardrobe.

en The inspiration's drawn from the same era, so it's all very slick and very trim and fitting, using ice blue colors, soft pale yellow and some bright colors, and then mixing with shades of khakis and yellows.

en On one of the surveys for `The Mosquito Coast,' which had stalled, I was in Belize waiting to go across a river, and there was a punt coming toward us, the very punt we would take across the river, ... I thought they were coming back from a fancy dress party, but it was too early in the morning. Then someone told me they were Amish! They got off the punt looking like they were in makeup and wardrobe from an 18th Century production. That was a tremendous hook for me.

en Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.

en Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.

en There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can find a 17th-century tapestry for $3,000 to $4,000, and then there are half-million-dollar tapestries.

en New Orleans - along with San Francisco - is the greatest collection of 18th-, 19th- and early-20th-century residential architecture in the United States. You're talking about miles and miles of historic properties. But saving the historic context does not mean necessarily rebuilding everything in it. I don't think you build a bad 21st-century copy of a brilliant 19th-century building.

en The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

en But everything was done by hand in the 18th century.

en Without Pitt, it would have just been another war in the 18th century.

en I am a person of the 18th century.


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