In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

I didn’t used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla – a rebel.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Fresh sneakers are important on a man. It’s like a new pair of boxers or a new pair of socks.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

My jewelry’s all fake – from Claire’s. Or I get it from my mom’s boutique in Barbados.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

I like to look good, my friend.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

When General Allenby conquered Jerusalem during World War I, he was hailed in the American press as Richard the Lion-Hearted, who had at last won the Crusades and driven the pagans out of the Holy Land.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‚the new modesty.‘

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like ‚Destiny’s Child’s‘, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn’t love.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

I want my wardrobe to be full of good clothes, so that when I’m deciding what to wear, I don’t run out of options. I love shopping!