Famous Quotes & Sayings

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Morgan Freeman

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

Elie Wiesel

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

Sharad Pawar

Globally, the highest number of irrigation projects are in India, and within the country, the highest number is in Maharashtra.

Angelina Jolie

Homework's hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, 'Okay.' And then I sit down and they say, 'It's math.' 'No! Not math! English, history, anything!'

Adriane Lenox

Of course, De Niro has had a long history of memorable performances. Everyone knows 'Taxi Driver' and 'Raging Bull,' but 'Awakenings' really did something for me.

Andrew Stanton

There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

Austan Goolsbee

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

Andrew Lau

I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States.

John Daley

We're hoping to make a documentary of the history of Oceanside.

We see it testing the high around $572, but there is a willingness in the market to go to $580.

Abbey Clancy

I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.

Andrew Lansley

There's a culture inside the NHS that is highly paternalistic. You know, 'We give them the service and they are grateful.' We have to move to shared decision-making.

Alan Furst

The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestine history. And then I people it with the characters.

Alan Furst

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

Alan Furst

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.

We got it and got what we wanted to do. We did something that's never been done and set a little history tonight. We're going to keep going. We can only worry about our team and how we play and go from there.

Scott Armstrong

We are spending $189,000 to hire people to do what the mayor said he could do himself.

We are seeing the pipeline, or the planning and construction stage for new hotels, at a historic low this year.

Steve Davis

trying to work out some type of negotiation, right now, for him to turn himself in.

William Hazlitt

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Bill Wyman

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.

Jules Verne

A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.

Bjork

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.

Bjork

I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

Douglas Wilder

Slavery is nothing to joke about. The history of this nation's involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.

David Christian

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

Robin Williams

Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

Barry Humphries

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

Seamus Heaney

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

The history of the tobacco industry is not a positive one.