The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum. — J. William Schopf Copy Share Image
“At least reindeer kisses do not cause me to take leave of my senses.” — Shelly Thacker Copy Share Image
Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
“Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.” — Amy Jarecki Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy. — Bob Woodward Copy Share Image
“Thought you didn't like red hair." One of Drew's dimples kicked in as he draped an arm about Grandma's shoulder. "Must have… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
It's not just what Christian fiction lacks I appreciate - it's what it offers. The variety is vast: contemporary, historical, suspense, mysteries,… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
We feel a special bond with Sicily and its people - in fact, our first campaigns were shot in Sicily, like the… — Stefano Gabbana Copy Share Image
Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact… — Jenny Uglow Copy Share Image
“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell 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
It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible… — Robert Faurisson Copy Share Image
I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story.… — Lucia Puenzo Copy Share Image
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
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