I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If you're someone who genuinely believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, far from being unreliable historians or merely clever inventors of myth and legend, reveal themselves to be… — Timothy J. Stoner Copy Share Image
“Our cultural debt to the idolatry of pagan Egypt was largely expunged from history by Christian revisionists.” — Philip Meggs Copy Share Image
“Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time. The… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
The Romans, who so coolly and so concisely mention the acts of justice which were exercised by the legions, reserve their compassion… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“It can be argued that the history of the United States is an uninterrupted cavalcade of such transformative moments. Walt was a… — Leslie LeMon Copy Share Image
As a child, I always wanted to be an actor. But as I grew older, the acting dream kind of faded away,… — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
“So when you study history, you must always ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects… — Glenn Haybittle Copy Share Image
The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
True love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image
“History is like a story with great characters, fantastic storylines, and wonderful settings. ~ Chip Lagerbom, 2011” — Dave Webb Copy Share Image
If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group. — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
We have good history in Virginia... and we have history that's not good and I don't think we can shy away from… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
When I brought my medical school friends home, Dad used to tell us that we didn't know anything about the world. He… — Holly Branson Copy Share Image
If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and… — Mia Goth Copy Share Image
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
You can go to a history class with one teacher and want to stick a pencil in your throat, and then go… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the… — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We won't let history define our future. Our actions will do the talking. Our determination will turn doubters into believers. — Andrew McCutchen Copy Share Image
The Muppet Show is very much seen as an English thing. So for us in the U.K. it is one of the… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
“When I write to please everybody, it falls flat. When I write what I know, fearlessly, It won't please everybody, but it… — Ronald P. Chavez Copy Share Image
