Top 1200 History Of Fashion Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.

I love things that have one foot in history - I was going to be a history professor before I sold out and went into TV.

History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!

To learn the history of the banjo is to recover the actual history of America.

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history

You want to be a part of something that is going to change history or make history or be bigger than yourself.

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making.

I have no idea other than where my readers are located, roughly. They could be 12. They could be 50. I just haven't a clue. I'm hoping my readership is a little wider and broad than what the typical fashion blog gets. I have received emails from a 50-year-old lady in Tel Aviv who says I have revived her passion for fashion.

The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.

The real mistake of women was to let the memoir, the collective, the history, space of producing history - to let it in the hands of men.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

I'm a history person; I love history. But I am conditioned by the present.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

[The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

I'm not against knowing the history of white people in the U.S. - that's not the point. The point is that there's so much greater history. We don't know about Native Americans. Very basically, we don't know that much about African American history, except that they were enslaved. You only get bits and pieces.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan.

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.

We decided that sports, lifestyle and fashion were three elements that could be mixed together to a very unique formula. That's what we did: make Puma a very sports-fashion brand when, at the times, everybody talked about sports and sports performance and functionality. We said, 'Well, it's about more.'

Anything I do, I do with 110 percent. Right now, my biggest goal is the 2016 Olympics. My main focus is that. But after the sport of swimming-when it's all said and done-I want to get involved in fashion. I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.

Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually, much of human history is up for grabs. The further back you go, the more that the history that's taught in the schools and universities begins to look like some kind of faerie story.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

In college, I was a painter, and I had a strong interest in fashion. I just like this concept of being able to dream something, materialize it, play with it and design it for the sake of someone else and for the sake of the joy in your own heart. So it's kind of like art that you're unattached to. It's art that you give away freely and I liked that about fashion.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

In Afghanistan, we have had a history of very strong women, and we need to reclaim that history and talk about it.

I think we're a band with a lot of history now so it's nice to come up with something that doesn't have any history at all.

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life.

I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.

There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover it in its own fashion. This was unprecedented in American history. CBS cancelled two-thirds of the newscast... to get a guy and take him out.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

My aunt was Frances Hodges, who in the Fifties was the editor of 'Seventeen' and later one of the creators of 'Mademoiselle.' She was my Auntie Mame; she loved culture. She was a Quaker, but she became a milliner against all Quaker logic - they feel that fashion and art are vanities - because she loved fashion.

Film is a narrative format. Some fashion films try to retain some of the poetic mystery, but most of the time they only end up looking like some crappy, pretentious film-school thing. So I think the interest in film is really about the fashion world finding another form of expression.

I know this sounds weird, but I was into storyboarding when I was younger. I loved coming up with my own style through fashion blogs and magazines. But I've never liked trying things on. I don't know why. It was more about making mood boards. I've loved fashion my whole life, but more the imagery of it than actually wearing it.

We believe that the history of the world is but the history of His influence and that the center of the whole universe is the cross of Calvary.

I think fashion is the only thing I'm fully suited to do because I am super impatient, which I think is a good thing for fashion. I could never work on something for two years. I would do 20 things and finish none of them. I always admire people who have that ability to sustain something for that long a period.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Today, there is no fashion, really. There are just... choices. Women dress today to reveal their personalities. They used to reveal the designer's personality. Until the 70s, women listened to designers. Now women want to do it their own way. There are no boundaries. And without boundaries, there is no fashion.