Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that’s what sex is about; that’s what history is about. – Seth Lloyd
Mills insisted that a sociologist’s proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. – Todd Gitlin
Here’s the thing with the costumes for ‘Mommy’: Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can’t really imagine that they’ve gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional. – Xavier Dolan
I’m so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes. – Zoe Saldana
In New York, I get people coming up to me because ‘The History Boys’ was such a hit on Broadway, and they show the film all the time on cable over there, so people recognise you. – Samuel Barnett
History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation. – Tavis Smiley
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don’t read all that much about the period you’re writing about; read things from the period that you’re writing about. There’s a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources. – Thomas Mallon
It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. – Thomas Friedman
I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, ‘Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery,’ meaning that you can’t go back and change anything in the past. – Vanilla Ice
As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask ‘Are you Susana?’ and they run up and give me a hug. – Susana Martinez
And it’s a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody’s heritage. It’s just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that’s everybody’s heritage. – Tony Randall
I was born in England and went to school there. That’s when I discovered my undying passion for history – not just for the Middle Ages, but all periods of history. My favorites are medieval, Elizabethan, and Georgian; however, I’ve written stories set in periods as early as ancient Rome, right up to the Victorian era. – Virginia Henley
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don’t. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I’ve never been to Iran. I’ve never even been inside a mosque. – Said Sayrafiezadeh
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I’m very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time. – Tom Hanks
I’ve always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them. – Scott Snyder
Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area. – Thomas Gibson
Make it your profitable habit to carefully study facial expressions. You can see the entire human drama in a face; you can tell its owner’s history. – Vernon Howard
Women were free in older times when the Islamic nation was strong. There are so many examples in history, not more than a thousand years ago, when Muslim women were leaders, scientists, professionals, and so on. It is all about justice, and justice can be attained through having the rulers accountable to their people. – Tawakkol Karman
I need to keep my story count high. I’m trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We’re telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think. – Shepard Smith
You will find it will almost always be more comfortable to sit on the sidelines and critique the builders from afar. But at the end of the day, the people who make a difference, the people who shape history, are not the haters. – Wendy Kopp
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. – Tom Chatfield
I love the history of popular music. I love to know what people are listening to, even if I don’t like it. – Tim Rice
My working history as an actor is definitely in the theatre; it certainly was in Australia. – Yael Stone
As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair. – William Gibson