#ric

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have. ↗

— Ken Follett

#characters #create #events #feel #happen

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#attitude #become #can-do #disenchanted #example

I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane. ↗

— Faith Ford

#haven #hurricane #i #parents #since

The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#after #another #beauty #because #before

L.A. is my American city. ↗

— Tom Ford

#city

We ...recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history—the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with those who would distort the ideals of men that died for freedom. ↗

— Carlos Bulosan

#freedom #freedom

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#dwarfed #generally #grafted #high #high price

When you are calculating an hourly labor rate, add in an additional thirty percent to that rate cover employment taxes. ↗

— James Dillehay

#how-to-price-crafts #sell-crafts #selling-crafts-online #taxes #business

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer. ↗

— Dick Francis

#died #historically #more #more people #people

I, for one, begin with intent. There is no question that, Saddam Hussein had intent to do harm to the Western alliance and to the United States of America. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#america #begin #had #harm #hussein