Historical Quotes

I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted. Clive Cussler
Beginning Plots Write Almost Because Historical Get Formula Then Convoluted
When we find a ship, we turn it over to the state or federal government. It's purely historical. I've never made a dime on any of it. Clive Cussler
Government Made State Dime Find Purely Federal Federal Government Never Over Ship Historical Any Turn
I'm obsessed with historical English royalty. Coco Rocha
Obsessed Historical English Royalty
I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies. Colm Feore
Characters Kinds Stuck Historical Movies Played
I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered. Colum McCann
You Manners Every Seems Something Put Puts Calling Historical Want Anyway Mean Your Novel Novels Right
Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how. Cornelia Parker
Art You Learning Car Drive Analysing Though Like Know Always How Reference Historical Even
'Confederate,' in all of our minds, will be an alternative-history show. It's a science-fiction show. One of the strengths of science fiction is that it can show us how this history is still with us in a way no strictly realistic drama ever could, whether it were a historical drama or a contemporary drama. D. B. Weiss
History Science Will Confederate Realistic Drama Strictly Our Minds Way Could Contemporary Science Fiction How Still Were Historical Fiction Whether Us Show Ever Strengths
It's a very good historical book about history. Dan Quayle
Good History Book About Historical Very
The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work. Daniel Barenboim
Work Quality Composer Importance Does Always Go Hand Hand-In-Hand Historical
Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect. Daniel Day-Lewis
Work Me You Living Difficult Honestly Related Extremely Visual Would Find Rate Recordings Prospect Know Because How Audio Doing Were Dull Historical Very Any Quite Being Where Process Available Avoid
Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage. Daniel S. Loeb
Education Me Perspective New Things Gave Philosophical Framework Could Investigate Columbia Put New Perhaps Always Lineage Historical Curious Intensely Things
The town of St. Charles near St. Louis was founded by a trapper named Blanchette. There is a section that's called Frenchtown on historical markers. Daniel Woodrell
Markers Section Charles Named Town Historical Louis St. Louis Near Founded
The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth. Darryl Pinckney
Truth Imagination Claim Purple Both Color Make Historical Works Novel Film
China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment. David Autor
World Country Kind Rise Employment Caused Historical Contraction Substantial China Really Manufacturing Wholesale Event Largest
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. David Chipperfield
Work Criticism Research Architects Divorced Studios Academia Ideas Most Were Historical Irrelevant Largely
I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me, that's a contradiction of who I believe I am given my absorption of the teaching of Martin Luther King, Jr. David Garrow
Me King Believe Think Prominent Signed Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Martin Luther King Jr Given Purposely Never Absorb Most Because Am Lecture Historical Up Very Contradiction Commercial Authors Agencies Teaching Who Luther
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction. David Garrow
Work Dreams Father Ways Memoir Instead Without Question Historical Historical Fiction Any Autobiography Fiction
I don't normally do pure historical work. David Grann
Work Pure Historical Normally
I did not intend for there to be an incisive historical lesson in 'North and South.' Basically, it's just a good, juicy story. David L. Wolper
Good Lesson Juicy South Historical North Intend Did Just Story Basically
In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. David Novak
Government Rebuild Enough Back Ruler Torah Temple Brought About Powerful Messiah Israel Historical Land Reign Jerusalem Gather Jewish
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity. David Novak
God Natural People World Living Members Individual Individual Human He Instead New Identity Calling Israel Historical Did Human Human Beings Formed Them Create Created Natural World Beings Even Chose
People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles. David Oyelowo
Best Me People Heroes Dramas Those Because Always Historical Get Roles Ask Many Why Play
Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports. David Shields
Sports Society Possibly Solve Solved Pretends Within Historical Questions Discuss American Where Place Realm American Society NBA Function
The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose. Deanna Raybourn
Addition Books Mystery Goose Historical Romance Sauce
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel. Deborah Harkness
Few Relevant Hiding Plot Characters Details Some Throughout Witches Discovery Historical Clues Pages Novel Resist
I love England and the historical aspect of it. Dennis Farina
Love Historical Aspect England
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