I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.
Today’s headlines and history’s judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.
To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.
Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.
I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.
Our successful stories die with us. If you are lucky enough, you go into the pages of history books where only few are interested to dig about you.
A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.
true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science. { }
If the great figures of this nation’s history were alive today, they would all have to say that they committed a felony when they applied for a job at McDonald’s.
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and ...
Uncle Les: She's history! I know what to do, I've read the comics! Total... bodily... dismemberment!
Michael Corleone: If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.
