I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man. – Xavier Samuel
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. – Timothy Leary
There are people who will appreciate what I’ve done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say. – Wen Jiabao
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. – William James
There’s a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I’d sort of like to get on to the future. – Scott McCloud
Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I’ve been learning more recently, colorful customs. – Wendy Kopp
In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II. – Vito Fossella
The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in which the government played a significant role. That role was, however, far more subtle than the plans of industrial policy gurus or techno-boosting politicians. – Virginia Postrel
For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal… building something in space that is really for all humankind. – Umberto Guidoni
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we’d have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense. – William J. Clinton
String theory has had a long and wonderful history. It originated as a technique to try to understand the strong force. It was a calculational mechanism, a way of approaching a mathematical problem that was too difficult, and it was a promising way, but it was only a technique. It was a mathematical technique rather than a theory in itself. – Sheldon Lee Glashow
I’ve been reading a lot about Silicon Valley history recently and was struck by just how core the lack of unions has been to the American tech industry’s evolution. It’s enabled the constant creative destruction that keeps Silicon Valley relevant and thriving in a rapidly changing world. – Sarah Lacy
I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom. – Will Self
There’s nothing new about anti-work philosophy. History is dotted with individuals and groups who decided that laziness was next to godliness and work was a waste of time. – Tom Hodgkinson
I found you can believe the man in history that is Jesus who walked the earth. It’s a whole different thing altogether to know Him as the Son of God – to have reconciled yourself to Almighty God. – Shawn Michaels
The success of ‘Rome’ was in making the history accessible and giving viewers everyman characters through which they can connect to historical figures. It stops the story from being too remote. – Tobias Menzies
There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can. – Sam Altman
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt
I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to. – Yves Behar
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. – Tony Bennett
The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their stories. It’s been a largely female-driven world. – Sherwood Smith
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. – Woodrow Wilson
History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit. – Samuel Freeman Miller
From 1801, Napoleon began an ambitious programme of civil reform to standardise law and justice, centralise education, introduce uniform weights and measures and a fully functioning internal market. That achievement alone makes him one of the giants of history. – Saul David
I base my roots and history in old blues, old country and old bluegrass, and I like rock ‘n’ roll, and somehow it all came together, and that is what I am playing now. – Tyler Hilton
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people. – Ta-Nehisi Coates