All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn’t matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art. – Gary Hume
I went into boxing, and I’m bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible. – Nicola Adams
As a writer of historical fiction, I believe you don’t want to fictionalize gratuitously; you want the fictional aspects to prod and pressure the history into new and exciting reactions. – Matthew Pearl
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures. – Meghan O’Rourke
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding. – Marc Bloch
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I’ve learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly. – Nathaniel Philbrick
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. – Francis Cabot Lowell
When people ask me why I’m amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it’s not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It’s because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator. – Don Lemon
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. – Eugene V. Debs
When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history. – George J. Mitchell
There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level. – Matt Smith
If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity. – Fatema Mernissi
You can latch onto theological ideas that are, in fact, not accurate, and refuse to let them go. I think we’ve seen this a few times in church history. – Frederica Mathewes-Green
When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its sensuous qualities. – Peter Zumthor
This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don’t matter is not quite the way our history would define it. – Faye Wattleton
With the success of Immature, I wanted to start the group B2K, which ended up being one of the biggest urban boy bands in history. – Chris Stokes
I’ve spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we’ve agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion. – Feisal Abdul Rauf
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography. – Norman Spinrad
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters. – Evgeny Morozov
A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world as it unfolded for characters of the time – with outcomes uncertain. – Del Quentin Wilber
Research is of considerable importance in certain fields, such as science and history. – Fred Saberhagen
There’s never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be. – Ed Asner
I want to suggest a feeling. It’s ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics. – Danielle Dax
Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly. – Moshe Sharett
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley’s steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history. – Eleanor Clift
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. – Margaret Chan
I think there’s a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe. – Danica Patrick
The need for raising the awareness of this shameful chapter in U.S. history is more apparent than ever. – Michael M. Honda