Famous Quotes & Sayings

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

William Gibson

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

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.

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.

Kevin Spacey

President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.

Nancy Horan

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

Eric Lander

We're living through a historic revolution in biology.

We're at the stage of the market where it seems to be detaching from historical fundamentals.

E. W. Howe

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

We've passed through the Lansdowne Historic District. It's beautiful.

Anthony Swofford

We watched 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Full Metal Jacket' before we went to war. It was pornography for us. They opened up this historical and psychological narrative. This is what men do when they go to war, we thought. It's a received image of war through film.

Jack Layton

We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

Carlos Fuentes

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

We can't tell exactly. We're going on historical data.

We do have a struggle when historic preservation is involved.

David Oyelowo

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

Condoleezza Rice

We need a common enemy to unite us.

We are seeing the pipeline, or the planning and construction stage for new hotels, at a historic low this year.

Jim Talent

We ought to be using the confluence, celebrating it and using it for its historical preservation value, for its tourism value, and for raising the visibility of the area.

We had one on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, but they needed it back.

Ludwig von Mises

Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world

Ludwig von Mises

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Paul Tagliabue

We are pleased that this historic re-opening will occur on a Monday night.

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

David Irving

Irving has for his own ideological reasons persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence,

Eleanor Catton

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

Clay Shirky

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

D. A. Carson

You get into theological education and you're busy marking papers and getting into administration in raising funds and doing all the things that are part of life, but here we were talking about important theological, historical, gospel related, biblically centered things hour after hour after hour.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Douglas Coupland

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

Donald Trump

[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.

David Hawkins

The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.