Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jeaniene Frost

After further introductions were made, we settled in the family room. Yes, the living room would have been nicer, but I wanted comfortable surroundings while plotting to murder one famed historical figure with another one. ~Cat

Jeremy Jackson

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

Jeffery Deaver

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

Herbert Marcuse

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

Herbert Marcuse

Hypostatized into a ritual pattern, Marxian theory becomes ideology. But its content and function distinguish it from classical forms of ideology; it is not false consciousness, but a rather consciousness of falsehood, a falsehood which is corrected in the context of the higher truth represented by the objective historical interest.

Herbert Marcuse

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

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,

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.

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.

Henning Mankell

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

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.

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

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.

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

Les Moonves

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

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Ernest Bevin

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

George Henry Lewes

Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

George H. W. Bush

There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.

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.