Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't think they know this is a valuable historic asset.

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.

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

William Gibson

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

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.

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

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

We had one on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, but they needed it back.

We want to involve people, to have them research trees and get interested in them. We're not only looking for size, but species that are unique and historic as well.

Ludwig von Mises

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

We've passed through the Lansdowne Historic District. It's beautiful.

Anthony Swofford

We watched 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Full Metal Jacket' before we went to war. It was pornography for us. They opened up this historical and psychological narrative. This is what men do when they go to war, we thought. It's a received image of war through film.

Jim Talent

We ought to be using the confluence, celebrating it and using it for its historical preservation value, for its tourism value, and for raising the visibility of the area.

David Oyelowo

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

Condoleezza Rice

We need a common enemy to unite us.

Karen Smith

We're the largest historical society in the south suburbs, and we're very proud of that.

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

Jack Layton

We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

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.

Carlos Fuentes

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

We can't tell exactly. We're going on historical data.

We do have a struggle when historic preservation is involved.