Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruno Heller

I essentially took the seed of that idea to try to tell a big, historical epic, but from the street level, the everyman's point of view.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Carlos Fuentes

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

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.

Karen Smith

We're the largest historical society in the south suburbs, and we're very proud of that.

Antony Beevor

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Antony Beevor

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

Stephen Jay Gould

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

We will be in the national light as a historic property in need of preservation.

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

We do have a struggle when historic preservation is involved.

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'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.

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.

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.

Eric Lander

We're living through a historic revolution in biology.

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

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.

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

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.

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.

Chuck D.

Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.