Better Quote by Jesse Johnson

Why did John Wilkes Booth do it? In My Thoughts Be Bloody young historian Nora Titone is one of the few to have genuinely…

— Jay Winik

“For a moment she could have sworn she was standing in one of those history-comes-alive museums--the kind that feature animatronic robots, the narration stylings…

— Gina Damico

“ He bantered us, challenged us, electrified us . . . At times his eloquence held us silent as images and some witty turn,…

— Hamlin Garland

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's…

— Henry Villard

He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is the gentlest…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and…

— Joe Klein

John [Cassavetes] loved actors. He gave them a lot of freedom. So if something came up that a certain actor just felt at the…

— Gena Rowlands

I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It…

— Jesse Johnson

“His way was like other people's; he mounted no high horse; he was just a man and a citizen. He indulged in no Socratic…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

“In the shock of his loss, Tony Hastings knew the importance of remaining civilized, with a bomb behind his eyeballs that would blow up…

— Austin Wright

“To such atrocities may men be driven who use the dagger for a cross, and upon whose mind the most trivial event makes a…

— Victor Hugo

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

— David Baldacci