Going down in history is a dead end pursuit

“Like entering what you think is going to be history and finding endless sad fragility.”

— Ali Smith

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

— Alan Taylor

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

— Persis Khambatta

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

— Christopher Kelk Ingold

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things…

— J. L. Austin

I don't actually think about going down in history.

— Chris Coleman

Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.

— Henry David Thoreau

You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got it wrong.

— Kim Cattrall

I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be…

— Salma Hayek

“I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old and craven…

— George R.R. Martin

“Can you imagine? Fourteen-hundred-year-old views of history determining how neighbors interacted in the twentieth century? No. You can't. Because history here is a dead…

— Nafisa Haji

I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our…

— Joan Nestle

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

— Anonymous