#stories

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#died #families #father #his #how

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#covered #gray #i #most #stories

There are very few really stark black and white stories. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#black and white #few #really #stark #stories

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#coasters #humor #stories #things #those

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#i #myself #really #stories #storyteller

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#almost #ever #fools #here #his way

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#higher #histories #mankind #only

My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform. ↗

— Eric Liu

#air force #chinese #during #force #general

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things. ↗

— George Lucas

#always #building #did #i #inspired

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#any #i #later #literature #make