History Quote by Arundhati Roy

“History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.”

— Alan Bennett

“Every action is a performance.”

— Andrew Davenport

“History is the view from the cheap seats. Distance from the action provides a unique perspective; one can recognize the plays and appreciate the…

— Debra Komar

“History is a record of human nature in action.”

— James Carlos Blake

“Show business imposes its own strict temporality: no matter how many CDs or DVDs we own, it would still have been better to have…

— Larry McMurtry

“History displays the events of time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.”

— Elena Lappin

The thing I find really special in performance is that there is this slightly mystical thing that takes over when you're responding to a…

— Johnny Flynn

“Historians predict the past for a living.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Gentlemen, a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted.”

— Herman Melville

“Humans. Always performing.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

“LIVE life in the Spectacular NOW...”

— kaylee