Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly recreates a historical event. While that is the only story in A THIN TEAR… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
If you think about how broadcast mini-series approach historical events, there is a hagiography. There has been a soft, very glossy idea… — John Landgraf Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. If… — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event. — Pinchas Lapide Copy Share Image
We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I'm much more conscious of historical events since the '60s. In the '60s, I was insulated by my own addictions, my own… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow… — Charlotte Mary Yonge 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
The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery.… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell said, 'Electricity is not a thing like St. Paul's Cathedral; it is a way in which things behave.' And it's… — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
He believed that all people existed behind varying layers of armor which, like the archaeological layers of earth itself, reflected the historical… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Brandon McCaw and Ron Dibiase help each other out doing history assignments out together. They are best buddies. Brandon McCaw and Ron… — Brandon Mccaw Copy Share Image
