#story

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people. ↗

— Greg Egan

#hundreds #people #read #story #thousands

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure. ↗

— Garth Ennis

#give #mini #pacing #proper #sense

Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#story #beauty

There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#another #bag #believe #boxing #coming

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#before #between #by the time #course #damage

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#danger #defending #few #freedom #generations

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#barack obama #famous #history #living #most

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#good #i #paper #see #sheet

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#basketball #because #good #good student #happy

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#ideas #mankind #the history of