#story

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#degree #different #different names #extraordinary #foreigners

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows. ↗

— Louis Malle

#elbows #everything #find #key #like

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#love #men #novel #short #short story

The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene. ↗

— Craig McCracken

#artists #decide #dialog #etc #every

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? ↗

— David McCullough

#deciding #factor #history #how #human

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american #american history #arc #civil #civil liberties

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. ↗

— William McKinley

#during #example #his #history #hope

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#easy #even #get #made #members

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becoming #class #great #great achievements #history

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#come #cutting #dallas #date #day