Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. Angela Carter on history
The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax. Tom Osborne on history
I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products. Shigeru Miyamoto on history
I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that. Shigeru Miyamoto on history
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. John Polkinghorne on history
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. Rand Paul on history
For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.' Rand Paul on history
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. LeRoy Neiman on history
Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing. Haruki Murakami on history
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. Jean Piaget on history
I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' Samuel L. Jackson on history
This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts. Haile Gebrselassie on history
When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble. Kevin Costner on history
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism. Alexander Haig on history
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history? Julie Burchill on history
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle. Dan Rather on history
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. Dan Rather on history
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. Ludwig von Mises on history