#story

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day. ↗

— Eric Cantor

#breaking #congress #day #ethical #every

A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life—the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives—as an actual project under way, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#childhood #history #memory #dreams

The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#bush #card #children #congress #created

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making. ↗

— John le Carre

#i #making #mean #message #storytelling

There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens. ↗

— Eric Carr

#dancing #girl #guys #happens #how

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story. ↗

— John le Carre

#good #good story #harness #same #spying

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt. ↗

— John le Carre

#belt #better #few #get #go

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#history #love #love is #marriage #more

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history. ↗

— Lauren Hutton

#contract #deal #exclusive #first #ford

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours ↗

— Alan Bennett

#history #reading #person