American history Quote by James Ellroy

Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing…

— Pearl Cleage

Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what…

— Fritz Stern

Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it.

— Kevin Young

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not…

— Max Weber

I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.

— Bryan Callen

“Darkness lingered in those blue eyes, like ghosts haunted him despite only the two of them standing in this cabin.”

— Katherine McIntyre

The end of spring- the poet is brooding about editors.

— Yosa Buson

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

— Rohinton Mistry

This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a…

— E. M. Forster

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

— Irving Stone

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not…

— Martin Buber