Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Tuchman

To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

Anton Chekhov

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

Diane Ackerman

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

With them having 4 checkbooks and 6 IDs, they may have a long history of doing this.

Jerry Angelo

We feel the history of his position for rookies bodes well.

Leon Redbone

My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Three years ago, I don't think Springfield would have been in the mix. But people go there to see history, and that's what we're all about.

Abraham Lincoln

We cannot escape history.

Ashwin Sanghi

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.

Toyin Odutola

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere.

Thomas Starr King

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Brigham Young

My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

When you're part of history, you don't know it. You're just sort of living your life.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Enya

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Carlton Cuse

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

Blaise Pascal

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

History is more interesting than most people think.

Tom Rachman

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

Todd Rundgren

I don't have a long history of hit singles of my own. I had a few, and I had a little hot streak in the '70s, but I've had a lot of success producing other people.

Denis Kearney

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out, and if this won't do, to kill him out.

Elias Canetti

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

[History is] petrified imagination.

Gary Neville

Ole will receive the most incredible reception that any player has ever had in the history of this club.

Michael Hastings

She has been Stalinized out of literary history on the theory that she messed up Eliot's life.

Since I was very little I knew I wanted to be involved in history.

Mike White

Most of the shows I've worked on have aired three times and are in the dustbin of history.

Lee Tergesen

We have history, because he was my training officer,

Peter Oppenheimer

We are targeting the second-best quarter in the company's history, second only to last quarter, with revenue of about $4.3bn.

Augustine Birrell

Libraries are not made, they grow.