#tory

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#favorite #historical #history #i #i love

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#buff #deliberate #films #history #i

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#everybody #generational #history #internalized #knows

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#command #course #distinguished #his #history

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#dublin #history #music #place #sense

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. ↗

— Henry Ford

#history #live #make #only #present

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms. ↗

— John M. Ford

#also #been #course #culture #describe

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. ↗

— Tom Ford

#america #had #moment #september #sympathy

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#challenge #every #history #injustice #north

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#backbone #devil #ghost #gothic #graphic