For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“You are correct in saying that desires often come from things we cannot easily gain - mine, being that of your love.… — Renee Vincent Copy Share Image
The occurrence of successive forms of life upon our globe is an historical fact, which cannot be disputed; and the relation of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So we've done science songs. We've done historical songs. A lot of people would like us to do more historical songs. Our… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the… — Benedetto Croce Copy Share Image
In some places you can find an extreme blackness used as a descriptive. I also take into account historical realities that some… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and… — Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When I was younger I saw God as a mighty healer who did something for me, but after all these years of… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are,… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I believe I was raised with feminist values, but I don't think I ever heard my Mom call herself a feminist. Before… — Julie Zeilinger Copy Share Image
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that… — Joshua Greenberg Copy Share Image
The only real source of historical information about pre-Islamic Mecca and the circumstances of the Koran's revelation is the classical Islamic story… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be current in the sense that I follow the news, I follow the historical moment of the day.… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
We have come to think of art and work as incompatible, or at least independent categories and have for the first time… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma;… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?" "Well, that would be boring,… — Carrie Vaughn Copy Share Image
The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has… — David Frum Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when… — Mark Pesce Copy Share Image
“Exercise care with what it is you do when you hold my heart in your hands. For it is my love that… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the… — Charles August Lindbergh Copy Share Image
It seems like journalism over here in UK, in general, is at a higher level: not overrun by all these teeny little… — Luke Temple Copy Share Image
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
'Boardwalk' begins literally on the first day of Prohibition, which I think was a wonderful way to start - to have the… — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
