history Quotes

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.