Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989

Topics

FriendTreePastForestOldWithout

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

John McDonald

AccomplishWayAnythingBigMust

I'm not brave at all.

Matt Nagle

Brave

Here is the most important thing for us all to remember, for the sake of our common sanity and safety: In America, the right to vote and democratically elect a president is just as precious and valued as the right to protest and express yourself against that president.

Ana Navarro

YourselfSafetyAmericaRemember

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

Stella Adler

LifeExperienceChoicesLookActing

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Tom Brokaw

PeopleRiseHeroesAwayWhoQuietly

It's never been about making money.

Rob Zombie

MoneyMaking MoneyNeverBeenMaking

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.'

Ron Rash

EagleHuntHowLearnt

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

EvilMadnessNothingFoolishBefore

Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction.

Joseph Brodsky

GoodStyleSpeedAlwaysPrecision

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

Douglas Sirk

YouMoviesMustGambleGambler

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

Art Hoppe

TimeWorryRight TimeRightAbout

Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.

Anthony Mackie

YouPersonNobodyMoviesLeadUp

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