Historical Quote by David Grann Download Open image “I don't normally do pure historical work.” — David Grann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historical History Normally Pure Work
I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by… — Kara Walker Copy Share Image
There's so much stuff that the normal person doesn't know that historians know. — Jay Blades Copy Share Image
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Emmett White became a firm, even unyielding, sheriff. Still, he showed remarkable consideration toward the people in his custody and insisted on making arrests… — David Grann Copy Share Image
My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage, whose warriors… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
I always believed that photography was subjective, interpretive and certainly did not represent the truth, but I did think that its status as a… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Curiously, the righteous Pharisees had little historical impact, save for a brief time in a remote corner of the Roman Empire. But Jesus' disciples… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
“Charlotte Richmond says of herself: “I have few ladylike accomplishments. I cannot sing, I cannot draw, I cannot play the pianoforte or the harp… — Nicola Slade Copy Share Image
“While taste conveys the complexity of life, a good chef should keep in mind that food can have a meaning that is often not… — N.M. Kelby Copy Share Image
“Whatever befalls us, we will endure it together. I clutch my longbow and dagger close to my side. My last thoughts linger on my… — Mark Noce Copy Share Image
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre.… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
