History Quote by John Sladek Download Open image ““History is a bunk on which I am trying to awaken”” — John Sladek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History
I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Fact and myth are history’s bedfellows; it’s hard to wake one without disturbing the other.” — J.G. McKenney Copy Share Image
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History is dead until we make it live; but it is the lively interpretation of history that makes it interesting.” — Robert J. Devaux Copy Share Image
“True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence.. And only a chosen… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“Joyce is right about history being a nightmare—but it may be the nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“History is not a dead thing or a sure thing. It lived with our choices and our dreams. It is the story of our… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
To my mind, the best SF addresses itself to problems of the here and now, or even to problems which have never been solved… — John Sladek Copy Share Image
“Yeah but Father, is that what you meant by God being a paradox? How he was so pleased to get a chance to nail… — John Sladek Copy Share Image
“As the semantic engineer, your job is naming the parts and tightening nuts and bolts. I suggest you get back to your office and… — John Sladek Copy Share Image
SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century… — John Sladek Copy Share Image
“Laugh if you will... They laughed at all great ideas and inventions. They laughed at nitrous oxide.” — John Sladek 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
