Famous Quotes & Sayings

Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.

Chuck D.

Historically that (bass) number is way, way down. The same with threadfin - their numbers are up, but it's still way, way down from historic levels.

David Hewson

Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.

Jack Horner

Historical science is being left in the dust.

Historical perspectives or outlooks represented in textbooks should not be identified as those of the Japanese government.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Reza Aslan

The New Testament is not a historical document.

William Wordsworth

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?

William J. Clinton

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Will Eisner

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Will Durant

Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.

Sarah Sutton

I like the stories with the historical themes.

Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Walter Benjamin

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness

Rudolf Otto

That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

Witold Walczak

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

Wes Craven

A collection of masks, depicting historical figures in life and what I like to call the eternal repose.

Wilfred Owen

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Walter Kaufmann

Paul substituted faith in Christ for the Christlike life.

Voltaire

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

Voltaire

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

William Ernest Hocking

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

Walter Scott

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Sandra Cisneros

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

Samuel Johnson

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Samuel Johnson

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow, - attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.

Ronald Reagan

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

Wendell Willkie

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

If you want it residential, that means you would have to upgrade the stairways, and if you upgrade the stairways, you're going to kill the historic look of it.

Being enrolled in the National Register of Historic Places is an honorific designation. It means the site has been studied and deemed significant in American history and culture.

Jay Bilas

I have to keep reminding myself there are a lot of teams out there that might not feel like NCAA Tournament teams because you're taking a historical perspective. When you sit down and do the math and start to look at the remaining teams, there really aren't that many teams vying for spots.

In historical terms Rachel has already made her mark,