History Quote by Demetri Martin Download Open image “History, like wallpaper, repeats itself and can also make a room look old-fashioned.” — Demetri Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Looks Old fashioned Repeats Rooms
History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
With style, history repeats itself. But when it does, there's something different about it. I like the continuation of that. — Quincy Brown Copy Share Image
I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath. — Shimon Attie Copy Share Image
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
History is fractal. The closer you look, the more complicated, yet always repeating patterns. — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future. — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
“History repeats itself. Someone says this. History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I think hair gel was invented to make it easier to identify assholes from a distance. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
When someone describes themself as a taxpayer, they're about to be an asshole. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I like to go to concerts because I love to see my favorite band through the phone of the asshole who's standing in front… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Skiing is my favorite sport, because, that's the only sport that is actually better to watch the worst the person is at it. "That… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image