Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.
Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.
Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.
The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were ma...
Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
An especially powerful type of historical evidence [for the Bible and Christianity] is that of fulfilled prophecy - historical events written down long before they actually happen. Hundreds of prophecies in the Bible have been remarkably fulfilled ex...
As a historian, I found myself all too often treating my historical subjects like fictional characters, malleable entities that could be made to do one thing or another, whose motivations could be speculated upon endlessly, and whose missing actions ...
All myths have a basis in fact
I'm the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles.
In fact, I thought my calling was to be a painter.
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.
I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.
