#backbone

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#book #character #compelling #draw #drove

Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#economy #gaming #nevada

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#backbone #being #being used #bill #communication

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#secrecy #speed #surprise

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#banking #banking system #been #faith #growth

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#baby boomers #backbone #boomers #care #cope

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities. ↗

— Tom Allen

#backbone #businesses #communities #family #family farms

Small businesses provide 75 percent of new U.S. jobs and are the backbone of our economy, and no outdated ban should be keeping small business owners from collecting the same interest their money could earn if it were held by an individual. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#ban #business #business owners #businesses #collecting

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#backbone #being #bully #comes #having

Good ideas are the backbone of good government. ↗

— Brian Schweitzer

#good #good government #good ideas #government #ideas