I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“But our relationship to these infinite pasts and futures isn’t random—plausibility throws its weight around, per some freaky quantum mechanics stuff that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The whole of human history was full of people who tried against the odds. Some succeeded, most failed, but that hadn't stopped… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
We know there has been a history of needing to be closeted to succeed and be famous, especially in acting. — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs. — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“How many of us have read history, and shook our heads and puffed our chest, and said, “If I were alive during… — Brian Huskie Copy Share Image
I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Some people say history moves in a spiral, not the line we have come to expect. We travel through time in a… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“— I was an American citizen too; a citizen who had to watch his step, a citizen who had to distrust the… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I didn't wake up one day and say, I have to tell O.J.'s Simpson story. But what drew me to it wasn't… — Ezra Edelman Copy Share Image
We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
I am not one who, to quote an American author, believes that democracy and enterprise have finally won the battle of ideas… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
“In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I would describe Bloody Sunday as a day in Derry history, Irish history, that changed the course of history. It was a… — Jamie-Lee O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Your personal history of pain, by the time you reached the age of forty, was supposedto have been folded thoroughly into the… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The history of political movements in the African diaspora is that the solution to the problem is never in the hands of… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Even the most casual study of the record...would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Sometimes our partners from other countries ask us why we have not got further with our reconciliation, as if we possess a… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
“What the two views hold in common is establishing the historical setting in the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200).” — Kenneth A. Mathews Copy Share Image
Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living — Abhishek Shukla Copy Share Image
Had my father been alive, he would have been super proud to see me create history by being the first Indian to… — Sherlyn Chopra Copy Share Image
I love Swindon. OK, it's not a place where you can almost smell the history, like Rome or Florence. It's an industrial… — Paolo di Canio Copy Share Image
“historians need to treat a participant’s own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I love the history of the sport and I want to keep keep building my history as a player with more records. — Neil Robertson Copy Share Image
Flatland was a great book...Edwin Abbot. I gotta say, I went nuts over A Brief History of Time, the Stephen Hawking book.… — Seth Macfarlane Copy Share Image
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain. — Sondre Lerche Copy Share Image
“As a reminder, that sometimes, history gives great enough opportunity to those with ideals and who struggle to test their ability to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a… — James I. Robertson, Jr Copy Share Image
As a medical student in the 1970s, I was taught that the foundations of diagnosis and treatment were to take a detailed… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“History is also a hard taskmaster, for she covers her paths by erasing so much evidence from her records—” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
