Erwin McManus Quotes

My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them.

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

I like reading about the past. I'm definitely not a history buff, but I do read a bit of history now and again, and to do that for work is really exciting.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

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.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

I had no interest in history classes. In fact, I used to sleep in history classes, I used to bunk classes. But that is how students are supposed to be, no? I developed an interest in history much later. I have made a few films based on historical facts.

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.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

I love history, doesn't matter what era, I'm fascinated.

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mold the social life of mankind.

The context of history proved invaluable.

History requires us to judge the figures of the past not by our moral standards but by those of the ages in which they lived and worked.

I read more history books than anything else.