#story

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#being #fear #going #idea #lesson

I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism. ↗

— K. Lee Lerner

#history #journalism #media #politics #science

Study the past if you would define the future. ↗

— Confucius

#future #history #learning #moving-forward #past

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#hitler #i #make #nice #read

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#edited #floor #grade #i #juniors

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#beginning #draw #end #ending #eventually

[R]ed hair is slow to lay back once it's got its dandruff up, and her bitchy mood required further opportunity to express itself. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#genesis #i #story #talk #tell

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#arms #give #only #russians #solution

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history. ↗