Historical Quotes

Shakespeare is in many ways an African writer and 'Hamlet' would be seen as a very accurate historical saga about an African kingdom.

Henning Mankell

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What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

Ernst Zundel

I AmLookingNowSayHistorical

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

Fred Kaplan

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There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

Buzz Aldrin

MoonPlaceFlightFirstHistorical

We have to put aside the customary historical reading of works of art in order to invite art to respond to certain quite specific pains and dilemmas of our psyches.

Alain de Botton

ArtReadingRespondOrderHistorical

The abundance of Roman historical mysteries contrasts with the surprising paucity of crime novels set in classical Greece.

Sarah Weinman

AbundanceCrimeHistoricalGreece

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.

Rashid Johnson

StrongBlackClassHistoricalMiddle

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.

Lauren Willig

FallRomanceHistoricalMiddleBooks

We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.

Ismail Haniyeh

TodayPeopleLandWithoutHistorical

The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that's called Frenchtown on historical markers.

Daniel Woodrell

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All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

PowerHistoricalGlobalPretenders

A historical event represents the best and the worst of that moment.

Rachel Kushner

MomentBestWorstHistoricalEvent

I just love historical fiction.

Jennifer Donnelly

LoveFictionHistoricalJust

Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

Nancy Duarte

MomentBecomePlannedHistorical

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Matthew Pearl

HistoryPressureNewHistoricalMost

I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

Kara Walker

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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Jeanette Winterson

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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

Gary Jennings

FactsTryWriteHardHistorical

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Stanley Fish

BetterNowEvidenceHistoricalFact

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

Carlos Castaneda

RealityDownNormalBreakHistorical

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

Roger Caras

PlaceOthersMuseumsHistoricalTake

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.

Edmund Morgan

AmericanNewObsessionHistorical

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.

Mike Love

MusicBeachPrettyHistoricalPart

People may assume 'The Act of Killing' is a historical documentary about what happened in 1965. But our purpose was to expose a present-day regime of fear for what it is.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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