History Quote by Debra Komar

“Is history to be considered the property of the participants only?”

— Salman Rushdie

“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under…

— Lionel Trilling

“...history is a selection process - it chooses moments and events, and even people - it hands them a situation that they shouldn't be…

— Brad Meltzer

Focus on the play like it has a history and a life of its own.

— Nick Saban

“The purpose of history, as I see it, is to uncover the forces which move the pawns on the chess board of the world.…

— Willis A. Carto

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

— Donald Creighton

“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . .…

— Gaston Bachelard

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances.

— Donald Creighton

“History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“History displays the events of time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

— George Santayana