I think that in France, we really admire American films, we admire their drive, we admire the modernity and ellipsism in the film and the writing and the style of acting, and we look at them perhaps in a way to see what we can steal from them, too, t...
I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen inter...
Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its changes subtly and incrementally. Nations and their institutions harden into shape or crumble away like sediment carried by the ...
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
The promenade is a special subset of walking.
Human history is a Gaian dream.
Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.
History is history. What is done is done.
I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
History was once the future, the future will create history.
History books are being re-written all the time
In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
Throughout the history of the Deutschritter the German genius is very evident, romantic idealism implemented with utter ruthlessness.
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story.
I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.
Well, history isn't ever going to end, happily or unhappily. And history is ending every second - happily for some of us, unhappily for others, happily one second, unhappily the next. History is always ending and always not ending, and both ways ther...
