Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Wright

This is a very historic and rare monument for the state of Tennessee and for the United States.

In historical terms Rachel has already made her mark,

I knew I was stepping into a remarkable historic place.

I'm not in a position to make a historical comparison,

Julia Quinn

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

It will really have that old historic look to it.

They have really seized, I believe, a historic opportunity,

We want to involve people, to have them research trees and get interested in them. We're not only looking for size, but species that are unique and historic as well.

What can you say? It's been a historical winter that wasn't.

This is the most historic property in Palm Springs. We are here to preserve that.

Jay Bilas

I have to keep reminding myself there are a lot of teams out there that might not feel like NCAA Tournament teams because you're taking a historical perspective. When you sit down and do the math and start to look at the remaining teams, there really aren't that many teams vying for spots.

If you want it residential, that means you would have to upgrade the stairways, and if you upgrade the stairways, you're going to kill the historic look of it.

Housing inventory levels improved in July, but they're still quite lean by historic standards,

Being enrolled in the National Register of Historic Places is an honorific designation. It means the site has been studied and deemed significant in American history and culture.

John Deane

But he said now seemed to be the time -- that he wanted to get it on the historical record,

They've been rewriting the show and revamping it, but I would think it would need a massive overhaul of historic and miraculous proportions to be saved at this time.

Seth Grahame-Smith

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Sebastian Horsley

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

Theodor Mommsen

History has a Nemesis for every sin.

Theodor Adorno

They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.

Marco Polo

Without stones there is no arch

Henry A. Kissinger

Who controls money controls the world.

John Shimkus

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

Nick Clooney

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

The historic reputation of a public hospital is the main thing we have to overcome.

Wayne LaPierre

a historic day for the NRA and also for the Second Amendment.

Andrew Luck

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'

These historic indictments matter because they demonstrate to Milosevic's victims that the world cares,

This is a historic moment for me and all the skaters of Italy.

Larry Page

This is a historic meeting of established and new media.

This is a historical moment. The support is incredible on this.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.