“White Americans cannot deny their long history of abusive transactions with people of color. These offenses, it should be noted out of… — Richard Kluger Copy Share Image
An accurate charting of American women's progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“A history of nightlife!--what an interesting concept. A history of a people, told not through their daily travails and successive political upheavals,… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
My main ambition as a historian is to figure out what's really happening in the world, instead of the fictions that humans… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making… — Major Owens Copy Share Image
“And he would say, “Y’all come when you can,” which was of no substantial pith or import, but then he would add,… — Jill Conner Brown Copy Share Image
I had said bye-bye to acting, in a way, but once an actor, always an actor. Life has got other plans for… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide.… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we… — Edward Bloor Copy Share Image
I think it's important to see the parallels, and to understand that our masculine and feminine roles are relatively new in human… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I know nothing I’m doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I’m just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I’m doing is… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Do you think that history professors chat about the reasons for World War One when they meet for lunch, or that nuclear… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Sasha was, without doubt, the worst driver in the history of motoring. She refused to acknowledge other vehicles, believed stop lights were… — Al K. Line Copy Share Image
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John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
Marxism, Freudianism, global warming. These are proof - of which history offers so many examples - that people can be suckers on… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“Anyone who manages to experience the history of humanity as a whole as his own history will feel in an enormously generalized… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
She gave me Heath's number and I called ASAP! It rang a couple of time beofre Heath answere. Hey Madi! This is… — Jade Copy Share Image
History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered for the good things - for winning the Champions League, for winning five of the first six… — Luis Suarez Copy Share Image
Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Pastor Bates was a careful reader of theology, literature and history. He delighted especially in Gibbon's woeful treatment of Christians in The… — Scott M. Morris Copy Share Image
The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
“Victor Hugo continues to be popular today not because of his multivolume works, which people may never have time or patience to… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts; it has flowed forward. Rome is… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
History is history, and it has to be told, and with 'Mudbound,' it's beautiful because you get to sit with both sides… — Jason Mitchell Copy Share Image
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I… — LeRoy Neiman Copy Share Image
“Our leaders strain every nerve and with success, to get the next war going, while the rest of us, meanwhile, dance the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as… — Joan Cusack Copy Share Image
“I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here,… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
“Separated from the rest of Europe, she has contracted an unsocial habit of manners, and imagines in others the jealousy she creates… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
No, this customary aim of research by excavators is completely foreign to the historical work with which I am occupied... my sole… — Heinrich Schliemann Copy Share Image
At moments of acute joy or sorrow, men and women throughout history have sung or reached for musical instruments to express the… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
