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Niall Ferguson Quotes

A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: April 18, 1964

Topics

Time Remember Possible Much Battling

Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?

Better Play Well Who Jews Than

I started liking basketball when I was 13, but I couldn't play because my dad thought it was too physical.

Basketball Thought Play Started Too

I was a tomboy. I had a pudding-bowl haircut; I wore big Doc Martens and dungarees.

Haircut Tomboy Big Had Wore

I'm often characterized as an optimistic writer, and certainly my 'Neanderthal Parallax' and 'WWW' trilogies shade toward the utopian. I like to think that's not simple naivete, but rather a reasonable approach.

Robert J. Sawyer

Simple Think Shade Approach Utopian

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.

Personal Interest National Interest

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Water World Language Earth Air Made

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Pressure Find Single Up Something

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

History Texas Independence Reality

You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.

Failure Great Walk Job People You

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

America Virtue Point Vice Seek

I've anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the 'delay switch' would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast.

Work Live Car Say Over Years

I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.

Brunello Cucinelli

Early Streets Idea Who Like Built

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