Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal… — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
Puerto Rico is an island separated by an ocean, a language, a culture. All of that put it in a position where… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
“Yes. Kissing. Overrated." "I could change your mind," Zach said, surprising the hell out of them both. Why would he take something… — Tracy Sumner Copy Share Image
I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Alison’s gaze gentled. “Tell me, Samantha, have you ever been to Scotland?” — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
For instance, members of the elite will never allow their children to become musicians normally, because it's - not embarrassing - but… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
“Still pleasant as a cornered hedgehog, and as well mannered as a badger, I see.” — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though. — Michael Hirst Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
“Rooks have clustered on either side of the long road. It is as if they line a grand parade route for our… — Ned Hayes Copy Share Image
“The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments… — Alexander Vassiliev Copy Share Image
Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult. — Nicolas Bentley Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier to teach than historical method, but, when learned, it has little use. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty,… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
