I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it...
England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.
History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
'Days' has always been strong as an icon in TV history, and it's still going on strong and represents the genre of daytime drama so well. I'm proud to be a part of it.
The Bible is a history book.
If you research history, I think we are all Jewish. It's the original culture.
It takes only a few seconds to make history new again.
There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.
I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship'...
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
