History Quotes

You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something going on here. And whether you want to call it channeling or being connected to a creative force or kno...

John Zorn

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

Kate Atkinson

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Kofi Annan

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer

Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding fro...

Kage Baker

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Kathryn Bigelow

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Ken Burns

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

Ken Burns

History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.

Ken Burns

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

Kevin Bales

Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.

Kurt Busiek

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

Kim Cattrall

The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.

Kirk Cameron

And it has some weight, I mean, the whole history of the gargoyles, that's some wonderful stuff.

Keith David

If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff.

Kim Dotcom

I like reading history, and actually most authors enjoy the research part because it is, after all, easier than writing.

Ken Follett