#story

I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities. ↗

— Ad Reinhardt

#art history #back #because #came #chinese

My time as editor has been overlapped by a crisis - a prolonged, labyrinthine, tragic, seemingly non-ending crisis - that involves the prehistory of 9/11, 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, fraught histories between the United States and almost everyone. ↗

— David Remnick

#almost #been #between #crisis #editor

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

I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitutional law where history is so essentially a part and an explanation of much that exists, the two disciplines blended very well. ↗

— Frank Scott

#blended #came #constitutional #degrees #disciplines