Historical Quotes · Page 28

I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what…

— Natalie Dormer

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's…

— Howard Hodgkin

“Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.”

— Amy Jarecki

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

— Caroline B. Cooney

I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

— Bob Woodward

“Still pleasant as a cornered hedgehog, and as well mannered as a badger, I see.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from…

— Raymond Queneau

How does photography serve to legitimate and normalize existing power relationships? ... How is historical and social memory preserved, transformed, restricted and…

— Allan Sekula

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I…

— Hari Kunzru

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I…

— Edward Rutherfurd

The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes…

— D.T. Suzuki

“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during…

— Michael G. Kramer

There is no justifiable prediction about how the hypothesis will hold up in the future; its degree of corroboration simply is a…

— Robert Nozick

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay,…

— Hu Shih

I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR…

— Stuart Dybek

Boris Yeltsin's period was characterized by a no less irresponsible attitude to people's lives, but in other ways. In his haste to…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A little later, Sherri went to get the laundry. She had to go down to the wash house and sought it. She…

— Cindy Burrows

Utopian fiction is really boring. I had to read a lot of it, and it's not that much fun. But they're fascinating…

— Christine Jennings

It [Hancock] happens to be a big budget film and big star like Will Smith, but it actually has a lot of…

— Charlize Theron

The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs…

— Jack Williamson

Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them,…

— John Fowles

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

— Antony Beevor

Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best.

— James C. Collins

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

— Thomas Jefferson

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

— Harry S. Truman

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about…

— Bell Hooks

Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.

— Hilary Mantel

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance…

— Julia Quinn

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

— Colm Feore

Germany's historical responsibility will not expire. We want to live up to it - and you should judge us on it.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

It often disturbs me, when I see a film set in a historical time, that the people are too modern.

— Max von Sydow

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of…

— Emile Durkheim

“His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.”

— Loretta Chase

“As an American historian, I will be correcting the historical record for the dangerous DeSoto Solar Farm to be a true, accurate…

— Steven Magee

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

— Hillary Clinton

I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of his [Obama's] historical ignorance.

— Charles Foster Johnson