#history

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#acting #back #because #child #child actors

A chronicle is very different from history proper. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#different #history #proper #very

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. ↗

— Anna Sui

#end #history #i #i love #in the end

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. ↗

— John Hersey

#fiction #gives #history #journalism #live

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#composition #grass #history #incorporated #influence

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. ↗

— James Hillman

#attempts #black #bowels #depression #hatred

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#game #heads #history #majority #middle

I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#daydreaming #death #history #innocence #love

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#every #history #library #only #should

The big guys choose who they want to fight and they think about history: 'how many times I defended my title.' They try to break a record: 'how long I was there.' But if you look at the pedigree, who they fought, ain't nobody gonna give them credit for it because they fought a lot of people with no experience. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#because #big #big guys #break #choose