#story

History is a vast early warning system. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#early #system #vast #warning

Live out of your imagination, not your history. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#history #live #out #your

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. ↗

— Donald Creighton

#character #circumstances #encounter #history #record

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#ask #continue #distance #explore #far

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got

Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring. ↗

— Claire Danes

#afraid #art #art history #because #boring

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#black #caribbean #history #indian #latino

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#experience #gives #history #life #literature

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#child #each #experience #history #may

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#dance #draw #else #live #mind