#story

I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#been #gimmicks #got #i #i think

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#facebook #first #history #jobs #know

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#book #dead #dry #dust #ended

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#comedy #did #director #exactly #job

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#gets #history #house #left #matters

Destiny had decreed that the Gauls were still to feel the true meaning of Roman valor, for when the raiders started on their mission Rome's lucky star led them to Ardea, where Camillus was living in exile, more grieved by the misfortunes of his country than by his own. Growing, as he felt, old and useless, filled with resentment against gods and men, he was asking in the bitterness of his heart where now were the men who had stormed Veii and Falerii - the men whose courage in every fight had been greater even than their success, when suddenly he heard the news that a Gallic army was near. The men of Ardea, he knew, were in anxious consultation, and it had not been his custom to assist at their deliberations; but now, like a man inspired, he burst into the Council chamber. ↗

— Livy

#military-theory #political-philosophy #political-science #courage

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.' ↗

— Gotye

#behind #character #close #close relationship #element

Just think, if I had understood my lawyer and if he and I had communicated properly in January 1958, this whole history would have been entirely different . ↗

— Gordon Gould

#communicated #different #entirely #had #history

I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter. ↗

— Garrett Graff

#i #i think #into #people #read

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#any #big #channel #day #discovery