#story

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#causes #countrymen #dealt #generations #history

I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#healthy #heart #honestly #humor #hurt

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#beach #black #black hole #bones #book

It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#anything #collaborate #compete #created #ever

And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you. ↗

— Fred Frith

#art #being #debates #downtown #ends

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. ↗

— Yann Martel

#fix #i #minds #movies #people

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. ↗

— Robert Frost

#had #i #lover #me #my own

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. ↗

— Robert Frost

#carried #few #george #george washington #history

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

I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#art form #deserve #form #i #i think