When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination:… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Why does an apple fall when it is ripe? Is it brought down by the force of gravity? Is it because its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of… — David Brin 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
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin. — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
On the road, they join the bedraggled remnants of a column of exhausted Confederate soldiers evacuating burning Atlanta. Rhett makes her take… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Brexit was not a historical accident, after all. It taught us where the EU's real problems lie. And if we do not… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
I try to take pictures on their own terms, considering the historical and social context from which they emerge. — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls… — Layne Redmond Copy Share Image
Muslims naturally saw Christendom as their arch rival. One point that is really important to bear in mind, particularly in addressing an… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
