Quotes About History

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

History is an orphan. It can speak, but cannot hear. It can give, but cannot take. Its wounds and tragedies can be read and known, but cannot be avoided or cured.

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.

Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I guess. In a way, it's an argument for record collecting.

My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.

History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

It was my dream as a kid was to make history.

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

I like American history, so I was aware of the participants and a lot of it.

It feels good to be a part of history.

Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history. Atticus O'Sullivan

[ John] Winthrop was the man who first said America was "a city upon a hill," which [Ronald] Reagan then appropriated. There are incidents like that all through history. We have been here.

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

Soap operas got nothing on my family history.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

I'm not as much a history person as an art person, but I mean, you can read history through art.

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history, or who we are and our potential.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.