#story

I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story. ↗

— Jerry Leiber

#coming #decided #got #heard #i

History's a resource. ↗

— Laura Linney

#resource

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#another #color #exist #generation #history

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#history #hobbies #interests #language #maker

Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#critical #heritage #history #immigrants #nation

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fable #moral #story #temporary

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#barack obama #famous #history #living #most

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#good #i #paper #see #sheet

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#basketball #because #good #good student #happy

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#ideas #mankind #the history of