Historical Quotes - Page 18

• There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, Ebb And Flow, Reputation

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• There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.

  Natalie Dormer

  Emotional, Limits, Henry V

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• Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Spirit, Human Nature

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.58, Princeton University Press

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• The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Reality, Foundation, Systematic

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.

  Cary Elwes

  Mistake, School, Past

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Youth, Disturbed, Contemporary

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• The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Play, Doubt, Theatre

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• To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Writing, Play, Guy

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• The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

  Tana French

  Fiction, Mystery, Chicks

  "Tana French: I'm haunted by Ireland's ghost estates" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2012.

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• I like storytelling movies and more than that I like historical movies; and I think someday I'll definitely make a movie about the past 50 years history.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Past, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Engineering, Media

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• The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be identified within specific historical popular collectivities.

  Antonio Gramsci

  People, Culture, Form

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• The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Culture, Use, Littles

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.101, Routledge

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• I've been impressed, over the last 15 years, with how often the somewhat conspiratorial comments of Haitian villagers have been proven to be correct when the historical record is probed carefully.

  Paul Farmer

  Years, Records, Lasts

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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  Rachel Gibson

  Book, Writing, Romance

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• There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Fiction, Stories, World

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• My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge.

  Tina St. John

  Writing, Romance, Dying

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• For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Beautiful

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Thinking, Important, Research

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

  Hari Kunzru

  Thinking, Historical Novels, Way

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• I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

  Kate Mosse

  Real, Fans, Fiction

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• Abraham Lincoln did not shoot John Wilkes Booth. Titanic did not sink a North Atlantic iceberg. And Fox News is neither fair nor balanced. These are simple historical facts intelligible to all adults, most children, and some of your more discerning domesticated animals. But not... to Bill O

  Keith Olbermann

  Children, Animal, Simple

  Keith Olbermann (2006). “The Worst Person In the World: And 202 Strong Contenders”, p.263, John Wiley & Sons

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• Sirs, you are doubtlessly intelligent people, however, I have a problem understanding how you found a place in prophecy for those I know to be void of a even a single drop of Hebrew blood - without any cultural or historical ties to the Holy Land and in fact simple converts to a base form of Judaism. Clinton eulogized Rabinowitz (Yitzhak Rabin) as a son of David and a son of Solomon. You must know that this man was a Khazar of Turko- Mongolian lineage, and can in no way represent a 'return' since his southern Russian ancestors never made it down to Palestine until 1948.

  Dave Hunt

  Son, Intelligent, Simple

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• It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

  H. G. Wells

  Facts, Palestine, Ancestor

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• When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War.

  Trevor Nunn

  War, Musical, Trying

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