#history

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. ↗

— Jean Chretien

#evolution #look #society #you

It's incredible to have been part of fashion history - my whole career has been one big highlight. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#big #career #fashion #highlight #history

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#greatest #hijacking #history #mankind #may

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#could #history #human #human blood #jot

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. ↗

— John Cleese

#comedy #history #i #the history of #want

I started drumming around the same time I came across this part of American history. But there seemed to be a way forward playing drums. There didn't seem to be a way forward being fascinated by a piece of history. ↗

— Phil Collins

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I don't have a long family history of good cooks in my family. ↗

— Bobby Flay

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The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it. ↗

— Julian Cope

#history #make #people #then #who

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

#days #got #great #great time #history

we're looking for a planeet on the strength of a song. it's crazy I know, but its the only chance we have to do something useful." ...Evan Wilson said gravely "I think you're as crazy as Heinrich Schliemann - and you know what happened to him!" "What" ... "you don't know what happened to him?" she asked her blue eyes widening in astonishment."Ever read Homer's Iliad, Captain?" ... "I don't know what translation you read Doctor, but there was no Heinrich Schliemann in mine - or in the Odyssey." "That depends on how you look at it." smiling she settled back into her chair and went on,"Heinrich Schliemann was from Earth, pre-federation days, and he read Homer too. No, not just read him, believed him. So he set out at his own expense-mind you, I doubt he could have found anyone else to fund such a crazy endeavor - to find Troy, a city that most of the educated people of his time considered pure invention on Homer's part." "And?" "And he found it. Next time you're on earth, stop by the Troy Museum. the artifacts are magnificent, and every one of them was found on the strength of a song. ↗

— Janet Kagan

#inspirational #education