HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries,… — Sonia Levitin Copy Share Image
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
I once did an event with Ian Rankin where he said he didn't really need to do much background research because his… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“There is an abiding fear Bonaparte will invade England by way of a tunnel beneath the Channel. How ingenious! Why, had such… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“Historical fiction isn't history in the conventional sense and shouldn't be judged as such. The best historical novels are loyal to history,… — Daniel Aaron Copy Share Image
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Fashion museums think the more you know about the significance of clothes culturally, the more interesting they are. We certainly don't neglect… — Valerie Steele Copy Share Image
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The… — Dan Brown 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
Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Whenever you're trying to do a film in a genuine historical period, you do have to make sure that you get as… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
First and foremost, telling historical stories is very tricky because it is something that is known. It is not like you can… — Anthony Hemingway Copy Share Image
There is a moment in the history of every nation, when . . . the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Even if you're playing the most well-known repertoire under the sun, I still believe you have a responsibility as an artist to… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Given the ambiguity of religious texts and teachings, the mixed historical record, and the empirical evidence, it would be foolhardy to assert… — Kenneth D. Wald Copy Share Image
Accepting the view that man was prior in the creation, some Scriptural writers say that as the woman was of the man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago… — Jonathan King Copy Share Image
“Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of… — Sally Armstrong Copy Share Image
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of… — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history and in the better days… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
If you write a book about a bygone period that lies east of the Mississippi River, then it's a historical novel. If… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
