Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicolas Berggruen

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Valerie Simpson

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.

Nathaniel Philbrick

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

Nathaniel Philbrick

If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.

Johan Santana

We did this together. We, as a team, made history tonight.

Leigh Lezark

Heels are a must. The higher the better. And when in doubt, go with black.

Leon Krier

Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history the size of rural or urban communities.

Plato

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Noam Chomsky

History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.

Bjarke Ingels

I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.

Simon Wiesenthal

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

Sonia Sotomayor

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

Tryon Edwards

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Artie Lange

Unlike a lot of comics, I didn't care about getting on 'Saturday Night Live.' That show had such history and was so established that I didn't see the point.

bell hooks

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism.

Beeban Kidron

If we don't record our own history on the Net, it will disappear.

Tim Rice

I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don't like it.

Alexander Smith

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

We'd love to get more people here so we can share this important piece of history.

We don't have the funds, basically. To hit people, you have to be able to do radio and TV.

Paul Tagliabue

We are pleased that this historic re-opening will occur on a Monday night.

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Howard Warren Buffett

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

We are looking at prices dramatically higher than a year ago in some cases.

We're at the stage of the market where it seems to be detaching from historical fundamentals.

Felix Baumgartner

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

Anna Netrebko

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

John Whisenant

There are no sure things in the WNBA. It's been two straight years that we knocked off a higher seed in the playoffs, so we know how slippery that can be.