History Quote by James Hamilton-Paterson

“He was thinking what a long and wide thing time is, to have so many happenings in it.”

— Russell Hoban

“Events in the past maybe roughly divided into those which and probably never happened and those which do not matter.”

— William Ralph Inge

“Time is that quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.”

— David Allen

“Recent history takes a while to set. People really don’t know what just happened. They only figure it out later.”

— Sheri S. Tepper

“Well, it was about time.”

— Josephine Angelini

“Anyway, all I'm saying is that there was this time--maybe it was a day, maybe a few days, I can't remember now--when everything seemed…

— Nick Hornby

“History displays the events of time.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.”

— Tasha Alexander

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

— Scott O'Connor

“I know that history is going to be dominated by an improbable event, I just don’t know what that event will be.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It was involvement that put you into time, perhaps.”

— Marina Endicott

“Yes, now I remember, yesterday evening we spent blathering about nothing in particular. That’s been going on now for half a century.”

— Samuel Beckett