Book Quote by Amit Chaudhuri Download Open image ““History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”” — Amit Chaudhuri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Class History
“Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“History lessons were superficial. The past was not set in stone, and was occasionally rewritten.” — Hyeonseo Lee Copy Share Image
“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“History books are a record of events which bring us to the world in which we live today.” — Ian Davies Copy Share Image
“History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.” — Christian Adam Ribeiraud Copy Share Image
“The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I just thought… — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
“History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
“I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.” — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“This is one of the distinguishing marks of history as an academic discipline – the better you know a particular historical period, the harder… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“what I was given to study in school I have forgotten; what I decided to read on my own, I still remember.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“The intention (of the puja pandals) is not so much to entertain as to disorient and astonish; to tap into the Bengali’s appetite for… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“The city was still .... Soon the machinery would start working again, not out of any sense of purpose, but like a watch that… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“the world’s cheapest small car, Tata’s Nano, worth only $1500. This toy-like ill-fated vehicle, whose destiny it was to look as if it had… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“He has a traditional shopper's DNA, an eye for freshness and appearance, and a consistent sense of a home to go back to.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“On the big bed, Mamima and Sandeep’s mother began to dream, sprawled in vivid crab-like postures. His aunt lay on her stomach, her arms… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“Her hair is troublesome and curly ... It falls in long, black strands, but each strand has a gentle, complicated undulation travelling through it,… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“When afternoon came to Vidyasagar Road, wet clothes ... hung from a clothesline which stretched from one side to another on the veranda of… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“Tagore claims that the first time he experienced the thrill of poetry was when he encountered the children’s rhyme ‘Jal pare/pata nare’ (‘Rain falls… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“Internationalism’ is a way of reading, and not a demography of readership.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“At the conclusion of Hollywood disaster movies and epics, time moves backward, piecing together like a jigsaw the elements that had come apart. The… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.” — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open was now unnecessary. ... It was as… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
