Quotes of: World-history Keyword

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.

Salma Hayek

Home is where I am. Sadly, I don't need a history to be able to exist somewhere.

Sophie Hunger

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

Stephane Hessel

I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.

Shigeru Miyamoto

I think training in comedy, as it were, a history writing comedy, is a powerful tool for anyone.

Steven Moffat

Someone will eventually succeed in this hunt for a longevity pill, and when they do, one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine will have been achieved.

S. Jay Olshansky

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.

Smokey Robinson

Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings.

Steve Yzerman

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Thomas Huxley

What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.

Thomas Mann

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Thomas Merton

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Tom Osborne

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

Vint Cerf

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

Vir Das

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Vivienne Westwood

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

William Banting

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Wilson Greatbatch

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

Willard Scott

Pools have their own uniqueness, design and engineering to depict culture, history or innovation.

Troy Dumais

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins