Famous Quotes
- I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
- Howard Nemerov on History
- I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
- Danica Patrick on History
- I think you can learn from history.
- Chuck Norris on History
- I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.
- Twyla Tharp on History
- I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
- I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
- Brian Clough on History
- I want to go down in history.
- Haile Gebrselassie on History
- I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
- Barack Obama on History
- I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.
- John Cleese on History
- I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
- Sidney Sheldon on History
- I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.
- Jeremy Rifkin on History
- I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.
- Chris Rock on History
- I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter on History
- I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.
- I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.
- Ed O'Neill on History
- I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.
- Barack Obama on History
- I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.
- John Foster Dulles on History
- I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.
- Rick James on History
- I'll watch any show on the History Channel.
- Rick Springfield on History
- I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
- Samuel L. Jackson on History
- I'm a history nut.
- Billy Joel on History
- I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
- Pat Robertson on History
- I'm inspired by history, different periods.
- Adam Lambert on History
- I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
- Alice Walker on History
- I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
- I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
- Daniel Day-Lewis on History
- I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
- Richard Dawkins on History
- I'm not sure history has ended.
- John Bolton on History
- I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
- Eddie Izzard on History
- I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
- Emma Watson on History
- I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
- Zoe Saldana on History
- I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
- Mike Tyson on History
- I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat it's nice to have that family history.
- Rachel Bilson on History
- I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
- Herbert Hoover on History
- I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
- Billy Bragg on History
- I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
- Gary Numan on History
- I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
- Jack Nicklaus on History
- I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
- Julie Burchill on History
- Ideas shape the course of history.
- John Maynard Keynes on History
- If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.
- Carter G. Woodson on History
- If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
- William Makepeace Thackeray on History
- If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
- David Suzuki on History
- If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
- James Buchan on History
- If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
- E. O. Wilson on History
- If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
- Ludwig Von Mises on History
- If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.
- Ron Fournier on History
- If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
- Dean Kamen on History
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw on History
- If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
- Rudyard Kipling on History
- If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one.
- Terry Eagleton on History
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