#story

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife. ↗

— Ruth Reichl

#food #history #table-manners #food

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#artist #being #big #big city #city

I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story. ↗

— Carson Kressley

#believed #clothing #great #great way #i

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#each #jealous #layout #other #storyboard

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#covered #director #editor #guy #jobs

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#culture #cultures #description #history #ideally

History shows you don't know what the future brings. ↗

— Rick Wagoner

#future #history #know #shows #you

Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#african #another #blind #both #deaf

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#aloud #consideration #inevitably #leads #life

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#even #good #good book #life #life story