I don't repeat myself and I don't look back because everything is hard work and the only way forward is to continue to be creative.
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to...
Memory deludes me. I have just remembered something that I completely forgot after it happened. I remembered it again when I was about sixteen, and then I forgot it again. And this morning I remembered not the event itself but the previous recollecti...
Richardson, however, remains a vital figure in the history of the novel, and of ideology. He initiates a discourse on sexual roles which, in all its ambiguities, is as relevant to today's society as it was in the mid-eighteenth century and which fill...
We arrived and we thought, 'This is our time. This is our generation. We have a responsibility.' " @garyjkemp of Spandau Ballet in "Mad World: An Oral History of the New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s
I have lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and ...
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written th...
Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.
War is sweet to those who have never fought.
Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility.
We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless.
Memory changes as a person matures.
Sadness, forever unacknowledged, eventually becomes resentment.
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.
I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.
What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
