Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

P. J. O'Rourke

I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Bobby Jindal

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.

Carly Fiorina

Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.

Erwin McManus

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

Fritz Todt

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Lil' Kim

My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.

Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

Michael Haneke

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere.

Suzann Pettersen

We did what we had to do. Annika hit a super shot on 17 and it just happens.

Lindsay Price

I'm liking the different types of tights that you can wear with high heels. There are lots of different colors and textures.

Kirk Cameron

The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.

Kelli Williams

I'm convinced that I've been hired for jobs because I can cry on cue.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.

Lara Giddings

Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

Lara St. John

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.

Leila Janah

My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

Kelly Wearstler

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

Jeremiah Trotter

When the whistle blows, it's hit and tackle. ... Are you going to put a knot on somebody?

When Yuri detects narcotics or other substances, he's trained to sit and put his nose on the location where the substance is hidden. Sometimes he'll get himself into a pretty contorted position trying to show me where something is located.

When Glen hit the 3, that was the turning point.

Naima Adedapo

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

Nancy Pelosi

Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

Nancy Pelosi

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

Aleister Crowley

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Albert Einstein

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.