Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful. "Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?

The Selection

All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

Middlemarch

As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.

Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History

Here, Mortimer Wheeler thought, is power. And a reminder of our mortality.

The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The wind helps me unwind. I make love like Don Quixote windmilled into history.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

Dates are convenient hooks on which we can hang our memories of events. But history is all about people - people like you and me who did things to change the world.

Nightmare

But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's January 9, 1771 letter to ...

Natural Right and History

She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.

NOS4A2

Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.

The Letters, 1830-1880

Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

The Laws of Gravity

Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot, and their words, books are an amalgam of the three.

Library: An Unquiet History

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

The Lost Symbol

You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.

Ladder of Years

History didn’t always predict the future. You had to live it one day at a time to find out what happened next.

My Roommate's a Jock? Well, Crap!

...We're more than just the history of our soul. More than our DNA. More than our past lives. We're the choices we've made in this life. Every one of them, giving us purpose.

Soulprint

The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more history and the present world.

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

Among the many who fruitlessly attempted thoughout history to create a time machine, one individual actually succeeded. He was surprisingly not a human.

Strange Science Fiction and Fantasy Omnibus

She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

Smooth Talking Stranger