Air Quote by Annie Dillard

Delving into history is not an escape for me. I'm like a detective, sniffing for clues with a terrier-like excitement.

— David Starkey

“What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history”

— Peter Cunningham

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.

— Robert Longo

History does not unfold: it piles up.

— Robert Adams

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

— James Ellroy

History is like a mole, it burrows away unnoticed.

— Andrei Sakharov

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

— Augustine Birrell

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

— John W. Gardner

History is a great dust heap.

— Thomas Carlyle

I understand better than she'd imagine that history is indelible. You can mask it; you can patch it smooth and clear; but you always…

— Jodi Picoult

But in physics I soon learned to scent out the paths that led to the depths, and to disregard everything else, all the many…

— Albert Einstein

History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

— Melvyn Bragg