Famous Quotes & Sayings

William O. Douglas

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

Anna Deavere Smith

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Nikita Khrushchev

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

Bill Vaughan

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Georg Baselitz

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

Kenneth Trump

The only thing that is more dangerous than a gang member with a weapon is a parent or an educator in denial. There's no excuse for parental ignorance. Turning their head and looking the other way can lead the kids into gangs in the first place.

Darry Sragow

Had he been able to portray the Democrats as a party that's preventing him from solving the problems of California, I think we could have painted ourselves into a very dangerous corner.

Jesse Ventura

Going on projections, I think, is a very dangerous thing to do, because if the economy were to switch or change, those projections become meaningless, ... Face The Nation.

Barry Trotz

He's just got to work his way back in and he's a dangerous player for us. He'll have a big impact as the series goes on.

Cindy Hockenberry

I think it's dangerous any time you spend money before it's in your hand. You never know what's going to happen.

Paul Offit

What makes you vulnerable is the virulence, the dangerousness, of the virus, and the 1918 virus was one dangerous virus, ... Avian flu, too - when it infects, it kills. That's why people are scared, and reasonably so.

Ruth Vostal

We talked about the dangerous points of the game. After someone scores, it's definitely a dangerous time.

Werner Herzog

My crew [on "Fitzcarraldo" filming] actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship]," and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.

Werner Herzog

You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.

Michael Korda

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Julian Barnes

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

Lee Hazlewood

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

Niall Ferguson

The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.

Hassan Rouhani

I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it.

Rick Perlstein

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

George W. Bush

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.