#story books

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

#books #feature #history #history books #losers

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#against #because #books #cavalry #fair

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#history #history books #i #lot #read

If you think you have it tough, read history books. ↗

— Bill Maher

#history #history books #read #story books #think

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. ↗

— George Michael

#books #everything #fell #going #happily

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. ↗

— Moliere

#blunders #books #dancing #failures #fill

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#accents #apartment #big #books #had

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#books #history #history books #i #i think

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

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

— David Strathairn

#film #history #history books #libraries #now