Quotes About Historical Documents

#1. Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

Bahman Ghobadi

#2. One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

James Buchan

#3. I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Spike Lee

#4. I'm not on drugs, Ben. I'm having an existential crisis.

Kim Fielding

#5. No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life's journey can be different. With God's help you can begin again.

Billy Graham

#6. Somehow, from this Gilbert concluded that the Moon's craters were indeed formed by impacts - in itself quite a radical notion for the time - but

Bill Bryson

#7. I am in complete alignment with my thinking with this statement by F. F. Bruce: 'Whether our approach is theological or historical, it does matter whether the New Testament documents are reliable or not'."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#8. In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.

Alfred Doblin

#9. I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense.

Elvis Costello

#10. I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.

Luke Evans

#11. Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

Josh McDowell

#12. The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less
I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and
as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently,
without asking too many questions.

Umberto Eco

#13. Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

Steven Spielberg

#14. An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.

Auren Hoffman