“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
People seem ready for a more in-depth idea of folk music, culture and history. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“To have a sexual history did not only imply one had made love to a succession of people, it also suggested one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I actually think history doesn't repeat itself. There are recurrent themes, but they're repeated with variations. Each time there's an immigration crisis,… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
“Tui Snider is a freelance writer, travel blogger, and photographer specializing in offbeat sites, overlooked history, cultural traditions, and quirky travel destinations.… — Tui Snider Copy Share Image
“We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance?… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
“And though history sadly doesn't credit the man who first thought of tilting a bicycle's steering axis, it is more likely to… — Robert Penn Copy Share Image
If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
“The new, alien string of letters had no illustration. No etymology. No pronunciation guide, even. It was just a hard-hearted, ungenerous little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Look behind somebody’s horrible exterior, and you usually found a horrible interior, shaped by a horrible history.” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to talk about the history of Manchester United because everybody knows it. — Lothar Matthaus Copy Share Image
A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The Internet, as the most open free-speech institution in history, has become a major factor in gun owners' ability to achieve success… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema. — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
The loss of my childhood was the price for becoming the youngest world champion in history. When you have to fight every… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“This is a unique scandal in Italian football history - with Juventus as the victims of an injustice.” — John Foot Copy Share Image
I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but… — David Greenberg Copy Share Image
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
“You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Those things which we call extraordinary,remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do… — Joseph F Smith Copy Share Image
“But what is the philosophy of this generation? Not God is dead, that point was passed long ago. Perhaps it should be… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land.” — Mark Kemp Copy Share Image
“The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“...first we should not seek to derive the content of gender identity by mirroring God, because any femininity or masculinity we may… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
