For me, art history is like a feather bed - you fall into it and it catches you. — David Salle Copy Share Image
History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
“Australian History: … does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
History, like journalism, is ever a journey outwards, and you must report back what you find and no more. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was… — Don Cheadle Copy Share Image
It’s hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing away a part of yourself. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“Herzen declared that there were “no solutions”: history, like nature, was an improvisation, subject to the play of chance.” — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“History was like an old house at night. With all the lamps lit. And ancestor whispering inside. To understand history, we have… — Arundhati Roy; The God of Small Things Copy Share Image
“He found on the spot the image of his recent history; he was like one of the figures of the old clock… — Henry James Copy Share Image
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Latino history is like a river dividing the United States and Mexico. It is shared by several different cultures and called by… — Ilan Stavans Copy Share Image
I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan… — Mo Rocca Copy Share Image
“History is a funny little creature. Do you remember visiting your old Aunt that autumn when the trees shone so very yellow,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to… — Helen Foster Snow Copy Share Image
My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“History was like looking into others’ lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved.” — Max Vos Copy Share Image
