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.

Ewa Kopacz

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

Ed Sheeran

I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.

Erin Richards

I've always been a massive fan of Batman. He didn't have any powers, so it meant that anyone could be Batman.

Ruud Lubbers

We are preparing for a massive relief operation,

Mark Lawrenson

As a modern-day role model, I'd have to go for Tiger Woods. I'm also a massive Sachin Tendulkar fan.

Paul Sergeant

May will be a massive month for Cardiff and Wales.

Jose Pena

I was struck by all of the victims and the massive destruction.

Sophia Myles

I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

Luke Evans

A longbow takes a massive draw for the arrow to go anywhere.

Ellen McLaughlin

The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.

Adam Roberts

Two regular people have worked to make something miraculous happen.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.

Ehud Barak

We are not talking about a miraculous solution.

Steve Kernkraut

I think they're only in the first or second inning of a turnaround. They've done a miraculous job, but I think there's much more to come.

David Parton

I think it's a miraculous recovery. I think she's doing wonderful.

Kofi Annan

You have to have some hope, otherwise I wouldn't be getting into this exercise, ... It may take some time. I don't think we are going to have a miraculous breakthrough, but at least it's a beginning.

Roald Dahl

I am suspicious of both facility and speed.

Peter Murphy

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

Helen Dunmore

Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away.

Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Vance Moss

We saved lives. Every day, we saved lives.

Clay Ginglen

We saved his life. And we probably saved other people's lives.

Coolio

As much as I would like to be the one who saved hip-hop culture, it's pretty much nigh-on impossible.

Bruce Bochy

He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs.

Hines Ward

He saved the year for us with that tackle.

Sheri Mowles

He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.

Eddie Jones

Pau has been doing it for us all season and he did it again. He saved us.

Sidney Crosby

Marc-Andre has saved us a lot this year and he did it again.