History Quote by Douglas Adams

“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and…

— China Miéville

“Once a line could truly be drawn in something other than sand, the notion of history as a progression became possible.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

“The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of…

— Douglas Adams

“History is never tidy.”

— Antony Beevor

“Our history was by then nothing but rocks, some scratches in the dirt, some huts, fuzzy memories passed on carelessly from the old to…

— Joe R. Lansdale

“Facts are but the Play-things of lawyers,-- Tops and Hoops, forever a-spin... Alas, the Historian may indulge no such idle Rotating. History is not…

— Thomas Pynchon

“These bits speak history's tattered tale. How we cling to scraps, shards, sea glass- because we cannot stay.”

— Erica Jong

“That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.”

— Kate Morton

“The dirty secret about history is how much of it is conjecture.”

— Erika Swyler

“Another hundred years were ground up and churned, and what had happened was all muddied by the way folks wanted it to be --…

— John Steinbeck

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of current events.…

— Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

“You know historians - can't leave a puzzle alone”

— Diana Gabaldon