Quotes of: Histories Keyword

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

Terry Eagleton

The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.

Toru Takemitsu

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

Age of Hirohito: In Search of Modern Japan

Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.

Along for the Ride

I wrote 'The Painted Word,' about modern art, and was denounced as reactionary. In fact, it is just a history, although a rather loaded one.

Tom Wolfe

Godless, 'we had no war.' Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.

Haunted

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

History of the Rain

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

The House at Riverton

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

History of the Rain

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

The Historian

Everyone’s got history,” Baasen said amiably. “Man still has to work, whatever’s in his past, eh?

Honor Among Thieves

If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.

The Invention of the Jewish People

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

John Adams

History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

Julian

History is riddled with blood and sin.

Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

A Room of One's Own

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

The Rock Orchard

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

Revolution

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Revolution