America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. – Georges Clemenceau
‘As Long As I Know I’m Getting Paid’ is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there’s some expectation that I’m going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism. – Patrick Stump
I don’t think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. – Frank Gehry
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history. – Eckhard Pfeiffer
The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983. – Michael Greger
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea – and the idea was liberty. – Nathaniel Branden
Anybody looking at the history even of the 20th century would not single out Islam as the bloodthirsty religion; it was Christian/Nazi/Communist Europe and Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu/atheist Asia that set records for mass slaughter. – Nicholas Kristof
I felt in my bones that Alfred Kazin was right to suggest that ‘the deepest side of being American is the sense of being like nothing before us in history’ – a historical conceit that privileged biography as the narrative of the exceptionalist experience. – David Levering Lewis
Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we’ve been at war. – Michele Bachmann
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein’s classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. – Edward Witten
You know that’s history, that’s why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don’t agree. – Marc Newson
I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can’t ignore history; you can’t escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form. – Frank Gehry
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future. – Nick Turse
Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That’s the image broadcast to abroad. – Nicolas Maduro
Teens affect history. They affect lives; they affect our cultural growth and change, and yet, and at the same time, they are often the most vulnerable among us. – Mary E. Pearson
From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can’t know much about it. – Mohsen Makhmalbaf
The more I’ve gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I’ve turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world. – Natasha Trethewey
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet. – Nathan Wolfe
I don’t look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now. – Pete Sampras
One important idea I hope is reflected in ‘The Poe Shadow’ is that fiction can add as much to history as nonfiction does. – Matthew Pearl
STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow’s rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future. – Peter Capaldi
Obama’s drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control. – Michael Hastings
Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that’s been very male-oriented. – Nancy Pelosi
I thought I knew who Alan Turing was. I’ve always loved history, and I was actually shocked by how little I actually knew. I was amazed this wasn’t common knowledge. Why wasn’t he on the front covers of my history books? He’s one of the great thinkers of the last century, and he was sort of pushed into the shadows. – Morten Tyldum
I woke up one day and thought: ‘I want to write a book about the history of my body.’ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began. – Paul Auster
My gift, if that’s not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them. – Michael Dirda
We are living in a time in which movies such as ‘Super Size Me’ and ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ have made box-office history, and books such as ‘No Logo’ and my own, ‘The Silent Takeover,’ are bestsellers. – Noreena Hertz