Hamish Bowles Quotes

I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

You become an expert by working hard. We've got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That's the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.

I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

Mythology and history are my passion. I grew up in a religious family and learnt about our scriptures and philosophies. It's the language I'm comfortable with.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

I started collecting baseball cards and basketball cards when I was younger. I have a CD collection that turned into a DVD collection, and I have a Jordan shoe collection. And I don't drink, but I have a wine collection. I just started a sweatshirt collection. Every city that I'm in, I buy a sweatshirt. It's just something that I do.

Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.

I have the largest collection of Hulk memorabilia in the world - everything from toilet paper, wallpaper, bicycles - all boxed up at my house in Northern California. I've had it for so long, I think it might be time to sell it.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested.

I just love learning about the way people used to live their lives, and I think what also ties into that is psychology, because I like knowing why people do certain things.

My father came to England from India in 1957, and my mum came in 1960.

The background - your own history - is way more important than what you can achieve as a professional.

Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.

From a purely ethnological point of view, I was not a period-born Dada.

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the U.S. military.

Historians are responsible not only for the words they write but for the words they don’t write.

It may not be art, but it is history.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

… so that in 50 years no one could claim that this did not happen.

There can be no history without archives.

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

If You Do Not Write It, You Never Said It