We had a TV studio in high school and I would write, produce, and act in movies with my friends... I then… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions.… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history,… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that… — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
“The history of ideas, then, is the discipline of beginnings and ends, the description of obscure continuities and returns, the reconstitution of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like… — Natalie Maines Copy Share Image
Concerning alchemy it is more difficult to discover the actual state of things, in that the historians who specialise in this field… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
I think it's important to humanize history; fiction can help us remember. A lot of books I've read in the past have… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“If Henry Adams, whom you knew slightly, could make a theory of history by applying the second law of thermodynamics to human… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Looking at the history of our country, we have been and we are pro-immigrant, but we aren't going to be much of… — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects - inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too… — K.J. Bishop Copy Share Image
“The claim to a national culture in the past does not only rehabilitate that nation and serve as a justification for the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Have no fear whatever of the Romans; for they are superior to us neither in numbers nor in bravery… Let us, therefore,… — Dio Cassius Copy Share Image
“What rivets me to history is seeing / arts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural… — Ronald Hutton Copy Share Image
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy.… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, natural history and naval… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What… — Lisa Tawn Bergren Copy Share Image
“ Do you ever wonder why it is that many of history's titanic intellects managed to come to radically different conclusions? The… — Tim Challies Copy Share Image
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and… — Robert M. Utley Copy Share Image
History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Ambiguity is really important to me. Part of the difficulty facing photographers is that almost any subject matter has accumulated a representational… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I this day was spectator of the most magnificent Triumph that certainly ever floted on the Thames, considering the innumerable number of… — John Evelyn Copy Share Image
Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
It is curious that the two best-known British historians in the United States are Andrew Roberts and Niall Ferguson, each of whom… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
