Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maynard James Keenan

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

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

Orlando is a popular destination from Charleston, West Virginia, like a lot of other places, It has a need, already historical trips and they're interested in looking at pieces like Charleston.

After reviewing the information provided, we find the report to be adequate. Therefore there will be no historic properties affected.

the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.

Mike Ferguson

They go through the mountains, lighting the airways on lower-altitude routes. I'd like to see them keep going. They're a historic thing that's unique to Montana.

This is really a historic and important occasion for us.

The Web throws all the historical ways of thinking about this stuff out the window. If I were going to start something today, that's what I'd do.

Newt Gingrich

This could end up being a very historic summer,

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.

For historical reasons, there is still some room for us to improve with respect to human rights.

Kwame Brown

This is historic that we're talking about this at all. We should all be proud.

Les Moonves

This is a truly historical meeting of the established and new media.

Ron Paul

This much is true: you have been lied to.

Ron Paul

The Federal Reserve System is nothing more than legalized counterfeit.

Stonewall Jackson

The only winner today is big business.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Shelby Foote

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

Leslie Fiedler

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Sharon Kay Penman

Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

Tana French

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

Samantha Shannon

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkiens legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.

Thomas Carlyle

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Tony Kushner

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

Steven Biko

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Joseph Boyden

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must read. For those who don't wish to understand, it is even more so.

Joss Whedon

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

Ben Shapiro

If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry.

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.

Stephen Jay Gould

Current utility and historical origin are different subjects.

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.