31 Archives Quotes for You to Enjoy

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills. O. Henry

The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar. Robert Fisk

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The Calandra Institute, the Metropolitan Opera Archives, the library at Lincoln Center, and the Fashion Institute of Technology were helpful and key to piecing together what life must have been like at the turn of the last century. Adriana Trigiani

Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built. Allen Weinstein

Research Sector Promoted Archives Records Federal Major Partners Within Built Private Private Sector Coalition Electronic Last

History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them. Alvaro Enrigue

History Construction Language Seen Tree Some About Archives Like None Existence Them Really Santa Santa Claus Presents

When you are playing somebody who did exist, and there is good source material on them, whether it is a biography or archives or experts, you would be stupid not to delve into them. But there is a point in the process where you leave the books alone, and instead, you focus on the script and creating your version. Andrew Gower

Alone Good You Focus Somebody Stupid Books Would Would-Be Archives Point Instead Material Leave Source Exist Source Material Version Did Where Process Whether Experts Script Them Creating Your Who Biography Playing

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well. Andrew Motion

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences. Antony Beevor

Love You Half Out Archives Poignant Excellent Days Come Accounts Personal Personal Experiences Just Experiences Descriptions Dozen

I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline. Antony Beevor

Work Chapter Relevant Archives Outline Make Read Material Subject Skeleton Then Across File Each Round Start Copy

The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it. C. Everett Koop

As a designer looking to the future, you don't want to get lost in the archives. Chris Benz

Future You Looking Lost Archives Get Want Designer

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

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I got archives of records. I have records from when I was 17 that I still think are pretty dope. Jeremih

Dope Think Pretty Archives Records Got Still

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure. Jonathan Zittrain

Legal Will Pressure Wish Difficult Increasing Interviews Those Cite Posterity Record Archives Only Journalists Protect Make Documents Disclosure Sources Anxieties Fruits Against Created Researchers Who Away Among Need

With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages. Joshua Foer

1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal. Kage Baker

Animal World Lost Fragmentary Too Everything Once Bits Bits And Pieces Dinosaur Classic Archives Obscure Footage Mere Like Pieces Existing Movie Them Really Should Extinct

As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French. Kate Williams

Spend Books Gazing Latin Would-Be Archives Days French Documents Historians Account Train Handwriting Arts Letters Early Medieval

Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed. Kate Williams

Looking Else Papers Telling Phrase Someone Archives Through Missed Days Come Piles Revelations Private Historical Even Homes Letter Letters

I rather think that archives exist to keep things safe - but not secret. Kevin Young

Think Secret Archives Rather Safe Exist Keep Things

First, we would reposition UPI by bringing it into the 21st century with new technology. And second would be to better utilize its assets, like the library and archives, which have terrific value. Leon Charney

Technology Library Better Value First Would Would-Be Archives New Like Terrific New Technology Which Century Utilize Assets Second Bringing

All the stories in 'The UnAmericans' required interviews, travel, hours and hours in the archives. All of that stuff is so important in the beginning, but I reach a point where I have to shuck it away. Molly Antopol

Travel Important Beginning Interviews Archives Point Stuff Reach Hours Hours And Hours Where Stories In The Beginning Required Away

Archives can be inspiring but overwhelming. You have to forget them - especially when the whole world has been knocking them off. Everyone shops the same flea markets. Patrick Cox

You World Overwhelming Everyone Markets Has-Been Archives Inspiring Knocking Been Off Forget Same Shops Them Flea Flea Markets Whole

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