“MEN AND WOMEN who did almost nothing for a large part of the year tend not to figure prominently in history books.… — Graham Robb Copy Share Image
But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
This is where you and I are headed… Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
After we pass on all the writing we did will go in history books. After we pass on all the pictures we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any… — James Dean Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Tremble had a secret. Underneath his dreary exterior, he was quite interesting. When his penchant for investigating the area's past was indulged,… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
I never think of the word legacy. It doesn't mean anything. You do the right thing, in my judgment, and things will… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
“I wonder how difficult it would be to just make a list of all the top blood purists and kill them. They'd… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It’s like saying beauty is in the eye of the beholder: what appears to be beautiful today may not be judged beautiful… — Peter M. Brant Copy Share Image
Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot… — Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Copy Share Image
“You see, boys forget what their country means by just reading The Land of the Free in history books. Then they get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rabbit's not like us. It has no history books, no photographs, no knowledge of sorrow or regret. I mean, I'm sorry,… — Donnie Darko Copy Share Image
“These secrets came down my own ornately curved and twisting family line. For family stories are never as direct as history books,… — Liz Rosenberg Copy Share Image
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all… — Norma McCorvey Copy Share Image
When I was growing up reading history books as a young student, it seemed all wars had a winner. Yet in today's… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
The fact is that we wouldn't have found out about Manzanar except in our story-telling because it was really never told in… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
Majors are difficult to win whether Tiger's there or not, and it's not like there will be an asterisk by the winner's… — Paul Casey Copy Share Image
I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
She died when I was 16 and I just think no history books, nothing is ever going to talk about my grandmother.… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
“Each Inspirational Messenger who was and has been acknowledged in the history books was done so because of the way they chose… — Emily Gowor Copy Share Image
I'm the last person who would end up doing something that needs meticulous compilation of facts. It's totally against my character. I… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
“This is a place where books are treasured – books that hold the sweetly magical smell of history; books that crackle when… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of… — Moliere Copy Share Image
A free and democratic society is not the norm. When you look to the history books, world history was not based on… — Rocky Carroll Copy Share Image
Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,… — David Gross Copy Share Image
We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
“There was nothing special about humans. Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
On the announcement that signs of extra terrestrial life were found in a meteorite, August 6, 1996 A hundred years from now… — Richard E. Berendzen Copy Share Image
