Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could… — Karl Friedrich Schinkel Copy Share Image
As it turned out, if you look at the history, everything in superhero comic books pretty much lies between Superman and Batman:… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me why comics have been so despised for so long. Obviously, it has to do with the history… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
“For me, the nomination of Barack Obama as a candidate for president and his inauguration in Washington represents a brief glimpse at… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“It reminded me that they [the students] were more than just their scholarly shortcomings and gripes about the workload. Each had a… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The fact that 'Small Island' is 'period' is amazing for me because it's something that I've never been involved with before. Also,… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
“Riding an omnibus or street railway was a novel experience. For the first time in human history, people other than the very… — Michael Schudson Copy Share Image
A great song awakens something in your body / mind / spirit or history that you had forgotten about. It ignites some… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
That the past is ahead, in front of us, is a conception of time that helps us retain our memories and to… — Epeli Hau'ofa Copy Share Image
“So how did Roe v. Wade help trigger, a generation later, the greatest crime drop in recorded history? As far as crime… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When ideology has become total through its possession of total power, and has changed from partial truth to totalitarian falsehood, historical thought… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I love architecture, I love buildings, I love history, buildings that have got a story to tell, and we can save the… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
“As I write this, I’m sitting in a café in Paris overlooking the Luxembourg Garden, just off of Rue Saint-Jacques. Rue Saint-Jacques… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear… — Frank Buckles Copy Share Image
When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Other people's history can be read comfortably, the way a novel can be read comfortably. By my own history? I'm on the… — Intizar Husain Copy Share Image
There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The Irish Free State was one of dozens of new European democracies to emerge from the cauldron of the 1914-1918 war. It… — John Bruton Copy Share Image
I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“I would not have the anniversaries of our victories celebrated, nor those of our defeats made fast days and spent in humiliation… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your… — Kurt Warner Copy Share Image
I think religious movies are more of a subset of the broader historical trend, and also the fact that there is more… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
“...most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The Stonewall uprising was a day when brave individuals took to the streets to fight back against harassment and hate, and by… — Sharice Davids Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Much is at stake. In giving Hochschild its Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award in 2008, the American Historical Association claimed that King Leopold’s… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Canadian researcher Donald Dutton . . has written that marital work with a man who has a history of relationship violence may… — Susan Weitzman Copy Share Image