Famous Quotes & Sayings

I knew I was stepping into a remarkable historic place.

I'm not in a position to make a historical comparison,

Julia Quinn

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves 'Downton Abbey' will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

Milan Kundera

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

The historic reputation of a public hospital is the main thing we have to overcome.

Wayne LaPierre

a historic day for the NRA and also for the Second Amendment.

Henry A. Kissinger

Who controls money controls the world.

John Adams

My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

Lord Byron

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

Andrew Luck

I'm a big fan of historical fiction stuff. Historical battles - 'Gladiators,' 'The Patriot.'

These historic indictments matter because they demonstrate to Milosevic's victims that the world cares,

This is a historic moment for me and all the skaters of Italy.

Larry Page

This is a historic meeting of established and new media.

This is a historical moment. The support is incredible on this.

Oliver Stone

In any film there's always a historical implication.

Oliver Stone

I'd love to do historical pictures more, but I don't know if I can.

Eric Lander

We're living through a historic revolution in biology.

There still is an interest. ... It's still the world's largest single-event bonspiel by far. It's still a unique historical event, and we'd like to maintain that.

David Wright

This is a very historic and rare monument for the state of Tennessee and for the United States.

It's on the National Historic Register. It's a significant historic property.

It's an historic store. We'll be working to preserve it. Part of it could be office and part of it could be retail.

It's an historic road and a piece of history passed over the road. It's known nothing but history.

It lessens the historical saliency of King for younger kids.

It will really have that old historic look to it.

They have really seized, I believe, a historic opportunity,

Michael Hirst

I've found that using historical material and being rooted in historical material is liberating because I always think to myself, 'Well, this actually happened, and this is fantastic!' That's why I don't like fantasy, in a way. Because it's sort of in emptiness.

It is very odd that it would not have to go to a vote of the people like the three historic towns had to do,

It's like seeing a historical weather map. You're in a space shuttle going back in time.

Lauren Willig

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

Kevin Spacey

President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.

Nancy Horan

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

Mike Huckabee

Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East....

Niall Ferguson

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.