Epic Quote by Graydon Carter Download Open image “History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.” — Graydon Carter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Epic History Missed Missed - opportunity Missed Opportunities Nothing Opportunity Storytelling Tale Tales
History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there. — Ramon Gomez de la Serna Copy Share Image
“History can’t give attention to what’s been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars. — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. — Earnest Hooton Copy Share Image
“History is a construct...Any point of entry is possible and all choices are arbitrary. Still there are definitive moments...We can look at these events… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“Lobster-both-ways is popular tonight. The preparation is easy enough. Take a two-pound lobster. Kill it with a sharp chef’s knife straight between the eyes.… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to,… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
'Green' does not have to mean the sort of hair-shirt, wood-burning-stove sensibility of the '70s. Green can and should be sleek and modern. — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
My first three manuscripts were epic fantasy - like high fantasy - and then the fourth one was a historical fantasy about Mozart as… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
'Forever Evil' is my love letter to DC super villains. It's my chance to take all of the villains I've worked with and all… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I want to do character driven epic storylines with Throne of Atlantis kicking off. — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
When you think about it, some people don't like certain things, but when it comes to music, no matter who you are, where you're… — Niall Horan Copy Share Image
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
