Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well.

As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair.

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.

I would love to be an historian. I'm a bit of a history geek and love books and programmes on the subject.

Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

To discover the various use of things is the work of history.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

History is as much an art as a science.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

It may come as a surprise but I also really started to get into history while I was at school. I found the projects about World War Two fascinating - perhaps when I get the time again, I could pick up where I left off.

Research is always the best part. As we dug deeper into the history and mythology behind each of the hallows, we discovered more and more stories - some of them deserving of novels in themselves.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

Mysticism is just tomorrow's science dreamed today.