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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Proof by analogy is fraud.

Antonin Artaud

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships.

Stephen Jay Gould

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Alfred North Whitehead

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

A. R. Ammons

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

Douglas Hofstadter

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Leon Krier

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Jerry Stiller

Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.

Elon Musk

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Jane Hirshfield

The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.

Amit Sharma

Until now we had no close-up view of the precise surface where the two proteins interact.

Kenneth Wong

For small companies, things need to be done precisely and concisely.

Ahmed Ressam

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target,

Giuseppe Gattino

We have a very, very precise project which is related to no waste after the games.

George Bodenheimer

We haven't firmed up precisely how and when we're going to do that.

Al Yankovic

I'm very analytical, I'm very precise.

Chris Maloney

I thought he was thinking too much, trying to be too precise and just couldn't get it going.

Kevin Johnson

The thing about this game, you've got to be real precise about what you do,