A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“From the chronology of our time perception we keep garnering fetching and enticing instants of our life story, still abounding in our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon.… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
There will be a day on which we will realize that past and future are nothing else than what we call present. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay… — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
“What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.” — STEPHANE AUDEGUY Copy Share Image
Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
Physicists now say there is no such thing as time: everything co-exists. Chronology is entirely artificial and essentially determined by emotion. Contiguity… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
