#tory

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love. ↗

— Nickolas Ashford

#blues #built #contemporary #contemporary music #depth

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#compare #example #fifty #for example #forty

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000 deaths. That is serious matter. ↗

— Julian Assange

#civilization #classified #cover #deaths #documents

We live in the least ugly time in history. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#least #live #time #ugly

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#escaped #history #remnants #shipwreck #some

If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things – but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t – and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. ↗

— David Fitzgerald

#christianity #history #jesus-myth #death

Jihad is obligatory for the Muslims. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#muslims #obligatory

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#i #music #rome #school #went

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#dead #dumb #history #me #philosophy

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans. ↗