You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies. — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question. — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific… — Christine Sneed Copy Share Image
I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Pictures that will live on for years, like 'The Birth of a Nation' and 'Gone With the Wind,' had great historical events… — William Wyler Copy Share Image
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts. — Arthur Keith 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
I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they… — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as… — Lion Feuchtwanger Copy Share Image
With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A large part of academic community is unthinkingly self-involved, producing reams of sterile writing - often consuming unbelievable amounts of public funds… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
Where possible Paul avoids quoting the teaching of Jesus, in fact even mentioning it. If we had to rely on Paul, we… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Consensual paranoia - the pathology of the normal person who is a member of a war-justifying society - forms the template from… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
Size will hurt returns. Look at Berkshire Hathaway - the last five things Warren has done have generated returns that are splendid… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ. — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era. — Abdolkarim Soroush Copy Share Image
“Are ye always standing like a stallion?" His low chuckle brought another wave of gooseflesh across her skin. "Only when Ye're near.” — Amy Jarecki Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
“But there will be no redemption for me. I will become the most unmerciful of murderers. I accept my fate.” — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue… — Robert Kocharian Copy Share Image
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.” — Helen Picca Copy Share Image
“There's a saying," Aeneas said: "Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts." He spoke wryly. "Horses, particularly.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel Copy Share Image
