Historical Quotes

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

Caroline B. Cooney

NeverFirstHistoricalBooksEight

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

Eli Roth

LoveWantMoviesHistoricalEpic

With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

Victor Ponta

PeacePlayDevelopmentHistorical

What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.

Pamela Sargent

LifePastPeopleFloatingHistorical

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

Maynard James Keenan

BehaviorNationSeeI SeeHistorical

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

Karl Jaspers

ReachMy OwnOwnHistoricalBeing

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Anita Diament

TryingNiceDifficultHistoricalGot

I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

Irvin D. Yalom

GreatCreateFirstHistoricalDeal

Any Southern nationalist movement, especially one that wraps itself in the Confederate flag, is going to be viewed with suspicion, given the historical record.

John Shelton Reed

FlagMovementHistoricalGoingGiven

There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

Fareed Zakaria

StrongGrowDataWayHistorical

What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.

Tony Judt

I AmOptimismGoHistoricalAgainst

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

C. L. R. James

TodayAmericanImperialismHistorical

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

Romesh Gunesekera

LiveWorldFastNowWillHistorical

The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

E. O. Wilson

RainPlantsOverTropicalHistorical

Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps.

Monica Lewinsky

MeThinkTryOutUpHistorical

Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any time.

Jonathan Zittrain

TimeThroughUpPrettyHistorical

I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.

Colm Feore

MoviesHistoricalKindsStuckPlayed

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Antonia Fraser

LongHistoricalGapBetweenFully

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Pope John Paul II

ExperienceHistoricalAwayEconomic

I have achieved lots of things throughout my career that are very, very good, but if they rewarded me with a Ballon d'Or, that would be historical.

Sergio Ramos

GoodMeCareerThingsHistorical

In wider spaces, people bearing historical grudges with each other were separated by the muting qualities of distance.

Tim Cope

PeopleDistanceGrudgesHistorical

I actually think actors both are drawn to playing real-life historical people and are terrified.

Ryan Murphy

PeopleThinkHistoricalPlayingBoth

Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.

Moon Jae-in

PeaceAbandonedHistoricalCannot

My wife, Lisa, and I both grew up on wuxia - Chinese historical romances. They're kind of analogous to Western epics. They're based on history, just like 'the Iliad' and 'the Odyssey' are based on history, but they're romanticized, and a lot of fantasy elements have been added.

Ken Liu

HistoryWifeKindFantasyHistorical

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