Related Quotes
All quotes about:
historical details teach
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren
historical knowledge
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need. Marissa Moss
historical history original people period stoke tendency
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources. Thomas Mallon
historical hold knew lives parents teachers truth
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples. Tom Hulce
historical records kind
I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip. Brian Eno
historical revolution fantasy
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. David Mitchell
historical excess world
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species. David Korten
historical empires literature
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. Dave Barry
historical history images people
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film. Kara Walker
examination dignity instinct
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. C. S. Lewis
examination worthless
A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless. Drea De Matteo
examination fiction freak
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. Flannery O'Connor
examination ability
Ability is not always gauged by examination. Indira Gandhi
examination individual life-altering
In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. Gregory Maguire
examination doe originality
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. Edward Carpenter
examination experiments died
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher
examination fraud dread
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. Samuel Johnson
principles degrees cost
The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
principles economics economy
Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
principles belief conviction
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held. Jane Addams
principles ease ruling
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. Jane Austen
principles republican loses
[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose. Alan Greenspan
principles world down-and
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles. Chris Cleave
principles compromise
I don't compromise my principles for politics. Chris Christie
principles sculpture passionate
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm. Barbara Hepworth
principles development guides
... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love. Ashley Montagu