“How would it be," she asked them coldly as they left the classroom [Prof Binns, History subject], "if I refused to lend… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If you have a good story, it doesn’t have to be overproduced. I want our stories to reveal the wonders of the… — Huell Howser Copy Share Image
All the historical elements should feel organic to the story but not hammered down to serve a purpose. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
As Michael (Chekhov)'s pupil, I learned more about acting. I learned psychology, history, and the good manners of art - taste. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I'm sick and tired of (only) reading about church history; let's make (some) by the grace of God — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy. — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer… — Robert Rhodes James Copy Share Image
We do not take into account the value of the stream. We see the number of streams as a measure of consumer… — Cary Sherman Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of… — Ellen DuBois Copy Share Image
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
“Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“It is always a fashion to advise disputants to sit round a table and solve disputes by dialogue and discussion, and not… — V. Navaratnam Copy Share Image
We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“Advances in technology can be empowering, progressive and enriching. History has shown this across civilisations and societies. But it has also shown,… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, there are moments in history when pessimism is the appropriate response. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“I remember a television program I once saw [...] I must have been seven or eight, too young to understand it. It… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Love should always be given, but trust must be earned, and never forget or else be tagged the fool, doomed to repeat… — L.M. Fields Copy Share Image
I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I think history shows that countries have to have some kind of a threshold level of economic success before they begin to… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Growing up, you recognised Arsenal by the cannon, 'The Gunners.' It just represents the history of the club. But the main thing,… — Martin Odegaard Copy Share Image
No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou.… — Neymar Copy Share Image
History will tell if we were really a good band or just a one day fly. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
When people confidently announce that once robots come for our jobs, we'll find something else to do like we always did, they… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
“What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I… — Isabel Wolff Copy Share Image
“And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The word 'Sudra' which means 'Son of prostitute' should not find a place even in the history hereafter. We will not allow… — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image