“Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for,… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings.… — David Novak Copy Share Image
I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
The postmodern worldview denies that there is such a thing as truth: historical, moral, or otherwise. It denies that truth exists independently… — Mark Earley Copy Share Image
As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
If anything, Brown is more oriented towards the other side of the Atlantic than Blair. Most of his reforming ideas and intellectual… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into… — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
We, the Greens, should thank our former foreign minister Joschka Fischer for bringing something hideous and shameful to light - that Nazi… — Claudia Roth Copy Share Image
You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones.… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
It is important to insist on the historical truthfulness of the narrative of the fall of Adam and Eve. Just as the… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
If one were to claim that the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq have been provided with "keys to heaven" by the Pentagon,… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream'… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the… — Otto Lilienthal 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
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As an Irish person, there's a historical fascination with America: America is the default green and promised land for Irish people and… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the historical mind, rather than the scientific (in the physicist's sense), that destroyed the mythical orientation of European culture; the… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I feel a great responsibility playing a historical figure because whether they were good or bad, I feel like the person deserves… — Vincent Piazza Copy Share Image
“History was a bitch sometimes. You couldn’t change where you were from. But still, you didn’t have to stay there. You didn’t… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
In early times, it was easier to control a million people than to kill a million. Today, it is infinitely easier to… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“You have a spine of steel and fire in your eyes, Rosalie. To have such a quality, one must be shaken to… — Moriah Densley Copy Share Image
“Seth shrugged. "He's already had his funeral pyre" He glanced towards "I reckon the Devil himself was there to welcome Daniel home.… — Grace Willows Copy Share Image
I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
