Antonin Scalia was witty, warm, funny, and full of life. He was not only one of the most important justices in the nation’s history; he was also among the greatest. – Cass Sunstein
I must be the only person in ‘Strictly’ history who’s actually put on weight during rehearsals. – Abbey Clancy
The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They’re monumental. They’re straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. – Billy Crystal
‘Britain’s Royal Families’ became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is – dare I say it? – history! – Alison Weir
The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern. – Alice Morse Earle
My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren’t created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. – Camille Paglia
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there’s nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. – Ani DiFranco
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president – with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln – just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we’ve got a lot more work to do. And we’re gonna keep on at it. – Barack Obama
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right – how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. – Amy Waldman
We’re at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives. – Anita Borg
I don’t think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault about that as far as Mr. Trump is concerned in my relationship with him. – Bobby Knight
The genius of vinyl is that it allows – commands! – us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it. – Adam Mansbach
I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels. – Camille Paglia
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. – Condoleezza Rice
I’m thrilled, I’m grateful, I’m blessed. I played for the world’s greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy. – Bob Hayes
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums. – Arthur Koestler
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be. – Bjornstjerne Bjornson
What don’t I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain’t nobody here saying, ‘You’d better learn this.’ But I still think I’ve got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me. – B. B. King
Smart and savvy, the fearless female member of George Washington’s Secret Six is a testament to the strong women who have helped to alter the course of history in this great nation, both in terms of large-scale battles and in the new opportunities they have helped create for future generations through their own fearless examples. – Brian Kilmeade
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. – Bruce Springsteen
We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn’t a big research show. With the ‘Wounded Knee’ project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we’re talking about. – Anna Paquin
If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. – Carter G. Woodson
In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years. – Chesty Puller
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. – Abba Eban
People don’t always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. – Caroline Kennedy
