A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
I study history in order to give an interpretation.
I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.
History is present in all my novels. And whether I am directly talking about the sociological moment or just immersing my character in the environment, I am very aware of it.
I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of 'the history play.' There can be no doubt that Shakespeare's presentations of 'Henry V' and 'Richard III' have been incalculably more influential than any more sober histori...
'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a laby...
Today is reality. Yesterday is history.
You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.
Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.
