#story

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#history #human #human nature #keeps #nature

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story. ↗

— George Brett

#books #i #life #love #love story

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alexander #breakthrough #discovered #european #few

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. ↗

— A. Whitney Brown

#actually #down #happened #only #past

Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history. ↗

— Earl Browder

#history #made #marxism #necessary #new

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. ↗

— Alton Brown

#based #charcoal #come #culinary #fact

The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science. ↗

— Alton Brown

#artistry #biology #chemistry #everything #food

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#capacity #directing #film #good #had

I Never Liked You. I think that's my best book. I think it works the best as a story, and I like the drawing. It works on both levels, for me at least. ↗

— Chester Brown

#book #both #drawing #i #i think

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#audience #concert #instinct #into #me