Deals Quote by Freya Stark

The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event…

— Hamid Dabashi

It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The…

— Amelia B. Edwards

“A thousand years from now" Leonidas declared, "two thousand, three thousand years hence, men a hundred generations yet unborn may, for their private purposes,…

— Steven Pressfield

“From the past they turn to the future. Ah! at the close of the last century, the future seemed a thing tangible,—it was woven…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

— Johannes Kepler

Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that men lived…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Persia is 7,000 years old and will fight to survive.

— Richard Engel

“On the human imagination events produce the effects of time. Thus he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that…

— James Fenimore Cooper

“A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of…

— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

“I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language…

— Azar Nafisi

“Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one…

— Arthur C. Clarke