Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm into the vampire stuff. I think it's really fascinating and interesting. There's a lot of history behind all of that, and if you look into it, it's really interesting stuff.

Read the sacred writings of all the peoples on Earth. Through all of them runs, like a red thread, the hidden Science of attaining and maintaining wakefulness.

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry.

George W. S. Trow

It is the idea of 'People' to treat its material as if it were history and, what is more, as if it were the history of a happy period.

George Vecsey

I love Boston. I love Fenway Park. I love Red Sox history. But in no way am I a Red Sox fan.

Flea

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

Erik Erikson

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.'

J. G. Ballard

Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.

Bill Buford

Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.

Ben van Berkel

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

Cynthia Ozick

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

E. W. Howe

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.

Brian Kilmeade

Without Cooperstown, you don't have baseball: Baseball is history.

Andrew Bird

Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

Amy Bloom

I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?

Carlos Fuentes

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

Washington Irving

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Malcolm X

History proves that the white man is a devil.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.'

Anthony Horowitz

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

This will be the peak of their results because of the high hot-rolled coil prices.

James Mercer

The part of modern pop music I don't know much about is hip hop.

This region has been hit pretty hard, ... We were doing much better in the 1990s than the national average. But since 2000, we've been doing worse.

Brodie Croyle

To be able to do what they did, no sacks -- I got hit once and that was a late hit -- was amazing.

Kevin Madden

There are literally thousands of e-mails like this sent by (Capitol) Hill staff members every day.

John Burnside

When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

Ron Gardenhire

When you have 13 hits and you've got no runs, there's not many explanations for it,

When you do genealogy, you do history by accident.

John Gibbons

The platoon is still on, he just hits Vazquez good.

We've got to get into a flow, and we haven't really hit it yet. We're going to hit it, we're going to turn the corner. There's too much leadership on this team not for us to turn this around.

There hasn't even been anything specific discussed. If he was going to make himself available, we would prefer him to do it sooner rather than later.

There has never in human history been that many communications sources.