This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and… — Christian Slater Copy Share Image
“Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come… — Charles Carleton Coffin Copy Share Image
“The representation written in this fashion identifies individual events, not overall changes from one point in time to another.” — Charles M. Fox Copy Share Image
Here's what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i… — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we… — Shayne Ward Copy Share Image
“…historians will say 'We have a few documents to show how the common people lived at this time. Records lead us to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“I'll always remember the day Daddy took me on a journey . . . the day history was made with one million men and me.” — Kelly Starling Lyons Copy Share Image
“No matter where you went—no matter how ancient the traditions, no matter how grand the history, no matter how awe-inspiring the landscape—there… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
I think Jose Aldo is a great fighter, has a great history, no one can deny that, but many people think I… — Patricio Freire Copy Share Image
I have a history, a long history of being stereotyped as a five-foot-two woman, which is very limiting. I've worked so hard… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the… — Lil B Copy Share Image
The first half of 'Book Reports' deals with the history of popular music and rock criticism. When I hooked all those historical… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you… — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
Learning more about America's history and the way our government functions is exciting - and it is necessary. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The story of everyday people rising up to fight against evil to protect their families - it's a story that we've seen… — Matthew Heineman Copy Share Image
“Throughout our history, education has been at the heart of a bargain this nation makes with its citizens: If you work hard… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history. — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I was looking at the history of the sport and I couldn't understand why there have been so many good South American… — Alain Prost Copy Share Image
“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.” - Stephen Colbert” — Aaron Council Copy Share Image
The story of our Commonwealth cannot be told without the history and experiences of Virginia's Native tribes. — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
“Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
