I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know… — Bernice Rubens Copy Share Image
The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers. — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. — John Lindsay Copy Share Image
“I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain,… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
“Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Historically, women's voices were central to food narratives, yet they were marginalized, and what happened at the table, the kitchen, the garden,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
“You are my heart,” he (Eryx) said…. “I will kill any man and turn the whole world to ash for you, my… — Jaclyn Osborn Copy Share Image
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom,… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer. — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones.… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
