#story

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

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#bear #children #could #death #east

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#her #homes #i #imagine #instead

They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#broadcast #cut #minutes #momentum #seven

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#itself #life #life is a #living #person

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting. ↗

— Connie Britton

#american #attracted #before #exciting #felt

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes. ↗

— David Broder

#been #declared #financing #first #first time

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#journalism #know #storytelling #you

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #food #history #i #like

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#easily #ever #had #history #information