Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
“I want to reach back into my history with a grade-school pink eraser, scrubbing away my decisions like mistakes on a math… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
History tells us what works in the gym, and everything else walks down the road with a carrot in its ass. — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too. — Mike Love Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime. — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very religious family, so that was never going to leave me. I just accepted it over the… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence… — John Green Copy Share Image
Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas'… — Sean Michael Wilson Copy Share Image
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining… — H.K. Savage Copy Share Image
Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I found my partner, my life partner, and I really am in love with my wife, and we have a lovely time,… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings. — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“I love how words travel through time; across space and time like little comets, their various meanings burning off like tails behind… — Tess Kincaid Copy Share Image
[The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
I think what we should do as historians is understand. And we can have our own views about how things turned out,… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“that the stories we tell about things, and thus the beliefs we have about their history and their nature, shape our experience of… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to… — Michelle Moran Copy Share Image
I recognize that, to someone who doesn't know my history, maybe I seem like this guy who gets dressed up for the… — Nick Wooster Copy Share Image
To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
Translating one region's works for another region has a beauty with an inborn connect. We might speak different languages but our culture… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest… — Greg LeMond Copy Share Image
If you're going to call a book 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,' readers will expect some serious carrying on about… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
We can't completely rely on the aberrations of history to explain today's European necessities. Future-related issues are no less pressing. — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times. — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
History will remember the UPA-II government for its numerous scandals, scams, and corruption, probably the maximum number ever. — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
When I watched The Outs,' I was like, 'Oh my god, this is just such a great, grounded, lived-in story about people… — Bowen Yang Copy Share Image
Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history. — John Coleman Copy Share Image
You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image