Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffery Deaver

Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.

James A. Garfield

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Christopher Lasch

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Frederic Morton

The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before...

Franz Boas

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science

Jeanette Winterson

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Chris Hedges

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed.

George W. Bush

Our aim is a democratic peace.

George W. Bush

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

George W. Bush

As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

George W. Bush

Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!

George R. R. Martin

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

Felix Frankfurter

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

Gale Anne Hurd

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan,

Adam Cohen

Everything we were doing back then was utilizing historic tax credits, but this did not qualify because it wasn't 50 years old,

Colm Feore

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

The shoreline is a tribal resource, a historic resource and an important part of tribal identity.

Julian Barnes

The Sixties were an oyster decade: slippery, luxurious and reportedly aphrodisiac they slipped down the historical throat without touching the sides

As a historical society, we knew we had to preserve history, but now we have to pursue it, too.

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

We were obligated to preserve our historic landmark. Not just for this generation, but for the generations to come.

Though she was always working on her historical thing.

The will of the people will make 2006 a historic year.

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

In historical terms Rachel has already made her mark,

I knew I was stepping into a remarkable historic place.

It's on the National Historic Register. It's a significant historic property.

There still is an interest. ... It's still the world's largest single-event bonspiel by far. It's still a unique historical event, and we'd like to maintain that.

David Wright

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

It's a historic rivalry. When you look at the history of the league, Willard has 24 (boys basketball) championships and Bellevue has 17 and everyone else is in single-digits.