Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Wilder

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.

David Christian

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

David Christian

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

David Christian

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

David Christian

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

Robin Williams

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Barry Humphries

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Alex Breckenridge

I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.

Alexandre Aja

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

Andy Kindler

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world.

Adam Jones

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

Blake Lively

In high school, there are so many cliques. You're never safe.

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

Carlos Fuentes

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Malcolm X

History proves that the white man is a devil.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.'

Anthony Horowitz

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

James Mercer

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

Magic Johnson

The only time I think about HIV is when I have to take my medicine twice a day.

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

There are hints now that the worst may be over in the labor story.

This region has been hit pretty hard, ... We were doing much better in the 1990s than the national average. But since 2000, we've been doing worse.

Brodie Croyle

To be able to do what they did, no sacks -- I got hit once and that was a late hit -- was amazing.

The phone started ringing off the hook, ... The rest is history.

Anthony Foxx

People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

Adriane Lenox

Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really did something for me.

Andrew Stanton

There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

Austan Goolsbee

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

Andrew Lau

I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States.