Famous Quotes & Sayings

A. S. Byatt

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

Trey Parker

That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history.

Mike Shanahan

Points will come. Yards will come. I think we've proven over history that we can move the football. So, maybe some day we'll get some yards and some points.

Aristotle

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars

Conrad Black

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

Monica Crowley

Nixon has enough to overcome in terms of his legacy and his political history. Now he has to overcome the in-fighting between his daughters. It's so sad. There's another obstacle for him to clear.

Jeff Zucker

Neal has presided over one of the most challenging and successful times in this news division's history,

Ronald Reagan

Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

May 1 will be a milestone in the history of Europe,

One of the weaknesses of our society is that history is still news to most people.

None of us really sell anything. Weaving is a passion and it just puts you in touch with your history to be able to make fabric.

Sathya Baba

No one can take the wealth of the world with him when he dies. This is a truth we have seen throughout the history of mankind.

The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.

Kim Cattrall

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

Kara Walker

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

We want to go to the place where history started.

What we're doing today is part of our unique history,

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

Sprague Grayden

I'm a history dork and a sci-fi dork.

MUM has a history of working on issues of restorative justice for 32 years. What we do specifically is the re-entry piece and specifically this project, which is called 'The Journey Home.' We work with housing, employment, support and treatment for formerly incarcerated men and women.

John Barth

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations

Bill Nelson

more than a leader in preservation in Northeast Florida. She is a recognized leader in preserving land and history in the South.

My history is to find the next big thing early.

Tom Jenkinson

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Never in history have we seen something like this.

Ross Levinsohn

Frankly, it's never really been replicated in the history of the Internet what Yahoo has done in the areas it's done it.

Simon Schama

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

I don't think we've ever had anything like this in the history of the country.

John Key

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

Damon Albarn

I enjoyed history at school. I'd always had a sense of pagan England.

Marco Tempest

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

I did not record them, because with his history and physical they did not seem consequential,