Henry David Thoreau Quotes

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things.

Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Nations and races change with the change of periods and the passage of time.

Things are politics for a long time before they become history.

The history of Africa goes back into the dim recesses of time and antiquity. There are even scientists in our time who are beginning to claim that Africa was the very cradle of mankind

All ancient history is dark and uncertain.

History is a relay of revolutions

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy.

The story of pi has been extensively told, no doubt because its history goes back to ancient times, but also because much of it can be grasped without a knowledge of advanced mathematics.

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

Archaeology holds all the keys to understanding who we are and where we come from.

Art history is littered with work that involves light.

The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.

We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

The Orkney imagination is haunted by time.