David Grann
Related JOHN W. GARDNER JOHN W. GARDNER The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to m... WALTER RUSSELL MEAD FERDINAND MARCOS As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, th... ADAM HOCHSCHILD There is no question that America has been a nation that has been blessed by almighty God. There is ... FRANKLIN GRAHAM I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way,... JAMES SPADER MIKE MILLS The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's b... ALTON BROWN CLARENCE DARROW KAREN JOY FOWLER There's a tendency, especially among revolutionaries, to only show the good side of yourself and... ARIEL DORFMAN JIM LEE SARAH CHURCHWELL NORMANI KORDEI JACK REED WILLIAM MORRIS DAVID MAMET When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and th... HARVEY WEINSTEIN EVAN BAYH With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the pote... WALTER LANG JOAN RIVERS MAC MILLER There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world comb... ROBERT BALLARD When you limit the word 'jazz' to one period of history, for the people who love that period... HIROMI UEHARA Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to d... EDGAR RAMIREZ In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycl... ABDUS SALAM DAVID S. GOYER CLIFFORD GEERTZ I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, ... DIZZY GILLESPIE DENNIS SHARPE DAVID CAMERON J. J. ABRAMS There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned. ASHTON SANDERS I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been... PETER EISENMAN I write what I want to write, and then, when it's finished, I use my judgment to see whether or ... JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN Those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs. FRANK HARTE NADIA BOULANGER There's a tremendous amount of work building the apparatus, getting the experiment to work. But ... LENE HAU It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emot... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI Almost everyone who has read history in a more than casual manner knows that when the great figure o... STEWART H. HOLBROOK ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE There is tendency to want to watch and almost cheer on a player like that. But it takes 20 of us to ... GREG JOHNSON As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance... CANDICE MILLARD ASHWIN SANGHI WOODROW WILSON MICHAEL KORDA There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's be... HAL PRICE The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God... BIANCA LAWSON DARLENE LOVE The road has been long, my friends, but this journey has been worth it, ... And we're almost there, ... FERNANDO FERRER The road has been long, my friends, but this journey has been worth it. And we're almost there, beca... FERNANDO FERRER If you show up to work five days in a row, nobody's going to pat you on the back - everyone does... JOHN DARNIELLE African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splinterin... GEORGE AYITTEY Actually it's a gift as an actor to cover such different parts of history. It's like time tr... SEBASTIAN KOCH There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don't know how to get through i... SABRINA CARPENTER History is a simple piece of paper covered with print. The main thing is still to make history, not ... OTTO VON BISMARK ANTHONY T. HINCKS THOMAS MALLON Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization'... STEVE WYNN COREY TAYLOR Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above wa... BILLY DEE WILLIAMS POPE BENEDICT XVI History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens STEVE TURNER WYNTON MARSALIS CHRISTINA ENGELA I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all... BRIAN MCKNIGHT Look at what has occurred in history. When the Berlin Wall fell, it was not surprising, but it was u... GILLES DUCEPPE ELIZABETH JANEWAY CHARLES MACKAY When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by aste... RUSTY SCHWEICKART MICHAEL PHELPS We would write scripts, like for 'Shutterbugs.' Then when we shot it, everyone just came up ... JASON WOLINER Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but t... MICHAEL C. HALL Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, an... KARYN PARSONS VIGGO MORTENSEN DAVID LACHAPELLE BRENDON URIE Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you... BRUCE ROBINSON KARL JASPERS I think the opportunity is there for me to win a fourth world title and I'd like to do it. Not many ... ERIK MORALES With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It'... P. J. HARVEY ASHTON KUTCHER BARTON GELLMAN In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's developme... MIKE FIGGIS There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do ... DANA GOODYEAR It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying... TOM PAULIN BONO CARLOS FUENTES That's history. I say history because it happened in the past. MURRAY WALKER DOUGLAS COUPLAND WOODROW WILSON We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group ... ADAM DAVIDSON HAROLD EVANS The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only... KARYN PARSONS JEREMY IRONS HARRISON FORD The building just has a bad history, ... We didn't know it in the beginning, so we had to bless the ... DANIEL DAE KIM The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the... JAMES MCGREEVEY WOODROW WILSON
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Because many squid have brain nerve fibres that are hundreds of times thicker than those of humans, ... DAVID GRANN I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer. DAVID GRANN The romantic notion of the clubhouse as a traveling fraternity of working-class heroes - the boys of... DAVID GRANN Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put ... DAVID GRANN The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is t... DAVID GRANN The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and ... DAVID GRANN You want the story to be about something, have some deeper meaning, but there is also an emotional, ... DAVID GRANN The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community ... DAVID GRANN In Brazil, the history of the interaction between blancos and indios - whites and Indians - often re... DAVID GRANN Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process... DAVID GRANN Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job ... DAVID GRANN My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own... DAVID GRANN You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This g... DAVID GRANN The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big... DAVID GRANN Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad. DAVID GRANN Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always ca... DAVID GRANN The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most ocean... DAVID GRANN I had always been a huge Sherlock Holmes fan. DAVID GRANN We all mythologize to some degree ourselves and probably embellish. I think some of that is the desi... DAVID GRANN The only thing as murky as a conspiracy is what's happening in Hollywood. DAVID GRANN An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savag... DAVID GRANN If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story. DAVID GRANN I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio. DAVID GRANN The Osage have this lovely phrase: 'Travelers in the Mist.' It was the term for part of an O... DAVID GRANN The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war ... DAVID GRANN One of the things I believe strongly in is developing institutions - legal, press, bureaucracies, ac... DAVID GRANN To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. DAVID GRANN During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blac... DAVID GRANN Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre a... DAVID GRANN Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional ... DAVID GRANN I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. DAVID GRANN For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novel... DAVID GRANN I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tel... DAVID GRANN It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little. DAVID GRANN When I work on stories, I tend to be pretty obsessive. DAVID GRANN Honestly, I had no idea what to do on Twitter when I started. I didn't follow it enough. Slowly,... 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History never looks like history when you are living through it. 
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy... 
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ... 
Life doesn't just happen; it's constructed through the history of power. And that's some... 
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. 
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - ... 
When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book his... 
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: mish... 
It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have ... 
There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. Bu... 
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the in... 
You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about mov... 
Through our own hard work and ingenuity, America has spent much of its history as the world's do... 
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the ... 
When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when yo... 
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising sci... 
Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, sc... 
Like almost every truly horrible thing that has ever happened in the history of our world, the end a... 
From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the in... 
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. 
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The his... 
History is a vision of God's creation on the move. 
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the... 
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The his... 
I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu... 
I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. &... 
Everyone has a gift.
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the per... 
If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. Ther... 
If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we tru... 
The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've co... 
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human... 
Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our prede... 
I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In ... 
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would b... 
We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becom... 
With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like ... 
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect... 
If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's... 
There's a long history of private-company cooperation with the NSA that dates back to at least t... 
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things... 
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the blac... 
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history onl... 
Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and... 
My feeling, of course, is that it's ludicrous to try to prove God's existence by science. Go... 
I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, ... 
Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le... 
People want security in this insecure world. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ... 
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off? 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives. 
Most people view success by the results, and I don't. 
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger... 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 