Kara Lindsay Quotes

History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.

When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.

I do enjoy history. That's one of the things that I love about acting is you get a chance to really dive into history and develop a real personal opinion about it.

I don't have a strong interest in history.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story.

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

The context of history proved invaluable.

I've always been fascinated by history.

I hated history in school.

History is sometimes hard. We study it and try to discover facts.

The public, as opposed to the profession, has little interest. Historiography—the study of history and its processes—is dull stuff.

History is about what people do within the limits of their landscape, their needs, and their past.

History is a pageant, not a philosophy.

Good history is a portal to the past.

History is not only the record of the past, but also the discipline of investigating and interpreting the past. The study of history develops habits of critical thinking and effective writing, as well as cultivates the careful analysis of various types of quantitative and qualitative evidence.

I have been a scrappy actor for 10-plus years, and when you're playing supporting roles, your relationship with the costume designer is very different.

I'm a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.

I see it in a lot of period pieces where everybody is standing and talking, in a stilted, archaic way, instead of being loose in the world. So, I try to do a little bit of research, just so that I can feel like I'm grounded, but then I try to bring as much of my human understanding that I can, under the filter of it being 1865.

I love the past. I read about the past all the time.

My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody finishes reading the book, he or she emerges from it with a sense of having lived in the past.

You can go through comic strips alone and study the common man. You can trace our history.

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

I read a lot of history for fun.

I'm a huge history buff. It was no hardship to read history textbooks for homework.