Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs. — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
We know there has been a history of needing to be closeted to succeed and be famous, especially in acting. — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
“The whole of human history was full of people who tried against the odds. Some succeeded, most failed, but that hadn't stopped… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“But our relationship to these infinite pasts and futures isn’t random—plausibility throws its weight around, per some freaky quantum mechanics stuff that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
“His bedroom was a reflection of Bryant's mind, its untidy shelves filled with games and puzzles stacked in ancient boxes, statues and… — Christopher Fowler Copy Share Image
For many people during many centuries, mankind's history before the coming of Christianity was the history of the Jews and what they… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
“Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that… — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
“Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century — a set of attitudes,… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
We must begin to tell black women's stories because, without them, we cannot tell the story of black men, white men, white… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
“Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even… — David Oyelowo 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
Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of… — Frances M. Beal Copy Share Image
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
History proves that most writers get forgotten anyway. That's very likely to happen to my books, and if I'm extremely lucky, maybe… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t matter,” Reagan said. “He already likes you. I think he’s into the nerdy schoolgirl thing. He talks about you like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“…the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget… — André Gide Copy Share Image
“The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies.” — James Boyle Copy Share Image
“Besides the tablecloths, the decor is all old photographs and postcards that they scrounged up from wherever, because you know how white… — Danielle Evans Copy Share Image
“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“It's bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must… — Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich Copy Share Image
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history. — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
The truth is not being aired in the West. It’s a surreal perversion of history that’s going on once again, as in… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
“Then tell them, faintly, 'I heard screaming'. Men with a history of violence live in fear of retribution.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Historians are a long way from being key workers. The best place for them is at home, reading their books and keeping… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The history of the world suggests that without love of God there is little likelihood of a love for man that does… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image