Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy. – Paul Di Filippo
History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed. – Ricardo Salinas Pliego
The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life. – Robert Kennedy
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn’t mean having read a few art history books. – Peter M. Brant
I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity. – Robert Littell
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? – Prince Charles
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s. – Ruth Reichl
I’ve always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American history. – Ron Howard
I don’t much like Singapore. It’s very big, very modern and very urbanised. As a rule, I prefer older places where you get a sense of the history. – Philippa Gregory
And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn’t mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public. – Richard Serra
At the beginning, we didn’t have the money to pay big names, which is how looking for new faces began a tradition that still continues 30 years into the Guess history. It’s been interesting to follow their careers after a Guess shoot, for both photographers and models, because the exposure around the world becomes so huge. – Paul Marciano
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. – Robert Darnton
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world. – Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe. – Richard Dawkins
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences – there’s no real pattern. – Peter Ackroyd
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. – Richard Rorty
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. – Oliver Kahn
When ‘Midnight’s Children’ came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book. – Salman Rushdie
I had spent so much time studying literature at Stanford and the history of medicine at Cambridge in an attempt to better understand the particularities of death, only to come away feeling like they were still unknowable to me. – Paul Kalanithi
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. – Richard Rogers
The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don’t know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up. – Salman Rushdie
In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don’t want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer. – Rachel Kushner
A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present. – Pamela Sargent
David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man who stormed through history on human legs. It was my great privilege to know him and work with him for many years. – Shimon Peres
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day. – R. Kelly
The thing is I think vaccines are one of the greatest medical breakthroughs that we have. I’m a big fan and a great fan of the history of the development of the smallpox vaccine, for example. – Rand Paul
I’m probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion. – Ricky Jay