The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me. – Robert T. Bakker
Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly. – Octavio Paz
There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should always be wise stewards of the earth and all of our natural resources. But as a policymaker, I won’t be guided by the global warming propaganda machine. Al Gore – we need you to return your Nobel Peace Prize! – Raul Labrador
Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That’s in my body, my brain, my history, my memories – it’s all part of my toolbox as an actor. – Ruth Negga
There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen. – Rio Ferdinand
I don’t see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we’ve been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women. – Salma Hayek
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. – Orson F. Whitney
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don’t like to do too much that’s improbable. – Philip Kerr
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. – Raymond Queneau
I’m so proud of myself. I thought, ‘I’ve got to learn about American history.’ I literally took two months off and watched every documentary known to man. I really didn’t know Benjamin Franklin was so cool. – Rene Russo
Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that’s thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history. – Richard Ben-Veniste
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Telluride has an incredible history and reputation, and I’ve long known of it as a unique entity that makes a place for writers – one more aspect of this exceptional film festival in the Colorado Alps. – Rachel Kushner
Equally, we require a collective past – hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. – Penelope Lively
The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don’t push it under the rug. – Octavia Spencer
Sweetheart, I’m the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that’s all I’m going to say. – Ralph Bakshi
I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don’t have any history in schools. Like, I literally don’t exist. I didn’t even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I’m 70! – Rose McGowan
If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class. – Richard Dreyfuss
Whenever you’re writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads – of history and culture. – R. A. Salvatore
To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just slick. He did it so effortlessly. – Reid Scott
The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. – Pierre Schaeffer
The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many occasions when the moral sense of a nation produced judicial decisions, such as the 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which required difficult local adjustments. – Robert Kennedy
What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? – Orson F. Whitney
Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually. – Robert Kennedy, Jr.
Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. – Philip Guedalla
The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed. – Ryszard Kapuscinski