Quotes of: Contemporary-history Keyword

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Kenny G

History is just one fucking thing after another.

The History Boys

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

John F. Kennedy

Every body has role to play in the history of the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.

Azzedine Alaia

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

Ben Barnes

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

Brenton Thwaites

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.

Catherine Helen Spence

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Henry Rollins

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

John Cleese

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

R. Kelly

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

Steve Lacy

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Susan Sontag

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Tony Judt

In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.

Warren Littlefield

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors.

Voltaire

'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a laby...

Peter Ackroyd