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.

Agnes Varda

I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

Charles de Lint

When you're invisible, no one can see that you're different.

Brady Corbet

I look pretty different. Luckily for me, I don't get harassed or anything like that.

Diane Wakoski

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

Devon Sawa

One casting director told me, 'You're the next Leonardo DiCaprio,' and when I heard that, I said, 'Let's talk about how I don't want anything to do with being like Leo.' He's an amazing actor, but the films we're pushing to do are different. I'm going my own way--in a big way.

David Selby

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

David Mitchell

An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton.

David Crystal

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

David Sanborn

Jazz music by its very nature is just a conglomerate of a lot of different kinds of music.

C. J. Mahaney

Never be content with your current grasp of the gospel.

Charles Horton Cooley

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

James Cox

He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.

Angela Merkel

It will not be possible to solve the current crisis with euro bonds.

Kris Kristofferson

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

Karen Walker

I always like the current one [collection] the most, that's just my nature!

John Williams

It's said that it takes elements like this to remind us there are still dangerous currents out in the community.

Steve Eddy

I'm not sure why it seems to happen more often in this area, but I'm sure there's a sure explanation for it. There just seems to be more of a collision of currents in this area.

Mark Pearce

That's even in effect a crap-shoot to some extent, because you're dealing with springs, currents and those sorts of things where you might have 6 inches of ice in one spot and you walk 20 feet, it'll be down to 2 inches,