#ow

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#book #exploit #great #hold #i

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#article #because #context #else #furious

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#how #i #make #parents #relationship

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#drowning #ends #helpful #man #rope

Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#could #grove #lamb #lefty #past

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#generous #her #own #she

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#best #casts #causes #certain #greatest

I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock. ↗

— David Bailey

#going #i #know #live #shock

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. ↗

— Dave Barry

#being #consumed #geographically #ireland #island

Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded. ↗

— David Bailey

#i #i think #knowing #more #open-minded