#history

Then I realized my early work did have something special that audiences adored apart from what I humbly thought about them. They occupy a distinguished niche in Italian film history and probably always will. ↗

— Dario Argento

#adored #always #apart #audiences #did

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. ↗

— Aristotle

#hence #history #import #more #nature

If I were beginning my career today, I don't think I would take the same direction. Television is at a crossroads at the moment. And although I am not up to date technologically, I suspect that somewhere out there people are conveying things about natural history by means other than television, and I think if I were beginning today, I'd be there. ↗

— David Attenborough

#although #am #beginning #career #conveying

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. ↗

— David Attenborough

#cardinal #days #fact #factual #history

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. ↗

— David Attenborough

#films #get #glimpses #history #human world

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bearing #being #birth #body #book

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president. ↗

— James Baker

#election #first #first time #happens #history

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul. ↗

— Russell Baker

#earth #feel #history #like #makes

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land. ↗

— James Baldwin

#american #any #begins #himself #his

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#appearance #archetypal #belongs #conditions #divine