I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I loved Latin -- the grammar, the difficult tenses, the history -- but for some reason I was very bad at it,… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect… — Leigh Steinberg Copy Share Image
In Globetrotter, David Albahari explores the consciousness of emigres from the former Yugoslavia, Croatia and Serbia, showing that while abroad, many of… — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
It's so self-evident that I have to live my own history, to remind people the fact that I got into radio back… — Drew Pinsky Copy Share Image
“The Bible- banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
“The princess stops us walking. She holds the lantern up between us, and she looks at me with the eyes of all… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
As for character, there is no doubt that the greatest of all time is The Undertaker, right? Look at all the time… — Sheamus Copy Share Image
“I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts...I was, you see, at the start of… — Arlene J. Chai Copy Share Image
The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are.… — Roy Lessin Copy Share Image
When it came time to take a job, I had the distinction of joining the smallest company of any graduate in my… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think certain periods of history don't get dealt with because I think historians, and it's their job, but they look back… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences,… — Richard Kirwan Copy Share Image
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
Personally, I am enthusiastic about the future. You can be too. You are living in the most exciting period of time in… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I’ve finally finished all of my tests,” Alex said proudly. “Now I’m free to see the treasures of antiquity and the battlefields… — S. M. Swartz Copy Share Image
In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“We believe that the death of Christ is just that point in history at which something absolutely unimaginable from outside shows through… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We will never know all there is to know about Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. No single story can relate… — Wendy Lower Copy Share Image
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, Tara's accomplishment was clear. She had lined up allies among the school's various groups and got them all to work together… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
I had a place to go to university; I was going to study history. I was in New York doing 'Arcadia,' and… — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Because my college was a local college, it had a historic role in educating minorities and the tuition increase was viewed as… — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
We all draw inspiration from women whose names make the headlines and whose stories are in the history books, but often our… — A'Lelia Bundles Copy Share Image
As he got closer I saw he was smiling. Im sorry I just couldn't.. He cut me off by picking me up… — Jade Copy Share Image
In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I'm going to follow the greats and make history. The likes of Felix Trinidad, Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Leonard, Floyd Mayweather,… — Kell Brook Copy Share Image
While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable.… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
