Historical Quotes

Even as regards Earth we are more committed to history than to geography, more committed to time than to space. History is endless. Place is limited.

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

Probably, if we looked at Da Vinci or Michelangelo with care, we'd see a historical particularity that the work is not treated as having. It's certainly true of Shakespeare.

I like mythology - anything historical.

A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

Demanding historical (or scientific) veracity as a prerequisite for truth is another kind of tunnel vision. To do so is to mistake poetry for prose.

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

Unless I'm writing trying to write about a historical figure, I don't really set out to read or research with a specific topic in mind.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

The logic of freedom of religion implies freedom to be an atheist, even though, from a historical perspective, this has not been accepted in the Muslim world.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go to enrich it.

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.

The banks run the place.

The great thing about really heightened historical dramas is that they can convey much larger themes.

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

If we don't have historical consciousness we can't really understand problems in all their dimensions, and if we can't understand problems than we can't find solutions.

The historical weight of gender inequality has tended to concentrate women in lower-paid jobs with fewer benefits, at the same time made them primarily responsible for care giving.

What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World!

And that is how we intend to destroy the enemy!" The superior shakes his head wearily. "Young man, the Soviets are our adversary. The Navy is the enemy.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

These are the times for which we were born.

I'm a huge fan of Michael Hirst, and I'm a huge fan of historical drama.

If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?

[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.

You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

As much as I love historical fiction, my problem with historical fiction is that you always know what's going to happen.

It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents

There is no self-knowledge except historical self-knowledge. No one knows what he is if he doesn't know what his contemporaries are.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

I consider myself a person who comes from a Muslim culture. In any case, I would not say that I'm an atheist. So I'm a Muslim who associates historical and cultural identification with this religion.