Quotes of: World-history Keyword

History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.

Eternity's Redemption

It's great to be a part of the greatest jackoff in history.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.

The Front Porch Prophet

(One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.)

History of a Crime

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Aldous Huxley

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

Lytton Strachey

Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.

Bill Viola

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Peter Eisenman

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

Rafael Moneo

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

Emma Anderson

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

Jeffrey Deitch

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Jeannot et Colin

I am...only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace. - Danny Rollings

Killer on Campus

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

Reamde

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')

Richard the Third

...with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object.

The Secret History

Well, it turns out a hero's lot is not glory or reward, but sacrifice.

Secret Histories

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

Meltdown

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

Mother Night

History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.

The Mandarin and Other Stories