I’ve always loved the club. Kaka was my role model when I was young, and my aim now is to go down in Milan history. – Stephan El Shaarawy
London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good. – Samantha Shannon
History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there’s been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it. – Tony Judt
History is full of really good stories. That’s the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. – Sarah Vowell
When I was in school, I conceptually didn’t want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere. – Toyin Odutola
If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect. – Steven Johnson
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. – W. H. Auden
You can get a certain amount of pleasure as a mathematical spectator, reading and watching some of the most beautiful arguments that have been created in the history of humanity. But that’s too passive. – Steven Strogatz
I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history – in fact, she had been thrashed out. – Sabine Baring-Gould
I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible. – Virginia Henley
There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. – Steven Levy
There’s a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called ‘funny animal scrolls’ were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions. – Stan Sakai
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that’s least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. – Tom Hayden
We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization. – Yitzhak Shamir
I am just postmodern enough not to trust ‘postmodern’ as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. – Stanley Hauerwas
I’m not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science – and then learn to write. – Tom Brokaw
I started swimming when I was four because my brother wanted to join a swim team, and I wanted to do what he did. They said I had to be six, but if I could swim a lap, then I could participate. So I swam a lap, and the rest is history. – Summer Sanders
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion. – Timothy Garton Ash
The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality. – Sam Kean
In the end, for all of Obama’s grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran). – Thomas P.M. Barnett
If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up. – Tony La Russa
The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. – Simon Wiesenthal
I’m not interested in gothic storytelling or the horrific for its own sake. I’m always interested in it as a way of getting at larger ideas or important meaning. And you don’t see that as much as you’d think in the history of horror cinema. A lot of times, it’s scariness for scariness’ own sake. – Scott Derrickson
We must delve deep into history the better to engage a true dialogue of civilisations. Fear of the present can impose upon the past its own biased vision. – Tariq Ramadan
When I was 16, I was in Boston and some friends said, ‘You want to go to New York?,’ I went with my roommate… These guys said, ‘We’re going to this club. Just don’t go in the washroom.’ It was CBGB. I had no idea what it was or the history of all the music. All I knew was this was my first 21-and-over club and I managed to get in! – Stana Katic
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect. – Seth Grahame-Smith
Jesus was not born in a manger in central Pennsylvania. He was a man of color. And the fact that we have represented him for centuries literally as a white man speaks to the entire history of white supremacy. – Tim Wise
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time – well into the eighteenth century. – Wilhelm Dilthey