#story

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

#any #conditions #history #instance #less

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#buy #care #complete #do not judge #here

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#academy award #always #approach #award #been

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. ↗

— Reggie Jackson

#baseball #baseball history #black #history #i

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#learning #reading #experience

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ↗

— William James

#clash #extent #great #great extent #history

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. ↗

— William Kirby

#century #east #east asia #end #first

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#album #being #called #civil #civil war

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#film #i #just #look #make

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. ↗

— Ma Jian

#erased #history #moral #moral values #people