“ Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over… Simon Schama
“ In Mesopotamia or Egypt, for example, the monarch had a god-like religious status. But this is not the case in Judaism. So that notion that religion can go on, when all the markers of power and trappi… Simon Schama
“ „Rozbójnicy i „bandyci to terminy od dawna stosowane przez bogatych (do których z pewnością zaliczał się Józef [Flawiusz]) na określenie buntowników spośród obciążonych podatkami i zubożałych. Simon Schama
“ Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its changes subtly and incrementally. Nations and their institutions harden into s… Simon Schama
“ The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibl… Simon Schama
“ The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence. Simon Schama
“ History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel. Simon Schama
“ The Torah, then, was compact, transferable history, law, wisdom, poetic chant, prophecy, consolation and self-strengthening counsel. Just as the sanctuary could be erected in safety and dismantled in… Simon Schama
“ An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A Simon Schama
“ Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose… Simon Schama
“ I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected. Simon Schama
“ Since there was little or nothing in Jesus' own reported teachings which required the repudiation of the Torah, it was possible to be a Jewish Christian, and considerable numbers in the first generati… Simon Schama
“ He was also deemed an irreproachable holy man who had returned to Antioch only when a life of self-mortification threatened to kill him should he persist with it. John had work to do: the most urgent… Simon Schama
“ Question, albeit speculative, won’t go away. No scholar quarrels with the archaic antiquity of the earliest elements of the Hebrew Bible: the Song of the Sea and of Moses. A strong consensus exists th… Simon Schama
“ The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a costume drama out of it. There's no place for it to go except trapped… Simon Schama
“ The Almoravids yielded to the madder fury of the Almohades and the days of worldly accommodation in Al-Andalus passed for good. Simon Schama
“ A young student had written to his father, justifying his decision to volunteer by declaring that our liberty can only be assured if it will have for its bed a mattress of cadavers… I consent to becom… Simon Schama
