Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

Maynard James Keenan

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

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.

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.

Karin Slaughter

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

Julian Barnes

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

It's an historic store. We'll be working to preserve it. Part of it could be office and part of it could be retail.

It's an historic road and a piece of history passed over the road. It's known nothing but history.

It will really have that old historic look to it.

Michael Hirst

I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness.

It's a significant day. It's a historic occasion,

It's like seeing a historical weather map. You're in a space shuttle going back in time.

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

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

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.

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.

In historical terms Rachel has already made her mark,

I knew I was stepping into a remarkable historic place.

That's an extraordinary occasion and an historic one,

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

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.

Henry A. Kissinger

Who controls money controls the world.

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.

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.

Lord Byron

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.