Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Clinton Van Doren

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.

Marissa Moss

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.

Thomas Mallon

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.

Tom Hulce

Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.

Brian Eno

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

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.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Kara Walker

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

C. S. Lewis

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

Agnetha Faltskog

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

Agnes Varda

I don't watch my own films. There is little time; I'd rather see another film.

Agnes Repplier

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things

Charles de Gaulle

I myself have become a Gaullist only little by little.

Charles de Gaulle

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

Charles Dickens

Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.

Charles Caleb Colton

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

Charlotte Bronte

Who has words at the right moment?

Brent Weeks

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Byron Katie

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Bryan Ferry

I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough.

Jane Austen

There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.

Jane Austen

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Chris Brown

You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime

Eckhart Tolle

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Eckhart Tolle

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.