#history

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#go #history #i #into #library

The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#always #between #comedy #course #falls

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#also #audiences #band #being #history

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#about #does #itself #repeat #soothing

Tell the Truth. Make it Special. Life’s a Beach. And then you Drown. Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones. ↗

— Justin Allison

#automotive #social-history #life

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#age #history #know #much #never

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. ↗

— David Strathairn

#film #history #history books #libraries #now

Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#deal #district #districts #ever #fictitious

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history. ↗

— David Suzuki

#global #history #human #human history #leadership

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#carnage #first #first world #first world war #forget