#story

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#american history #aside #caribbean #celebrate #contribution

I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me. ↗

— Mike Epps

#me #pryor #richard #richard pryor #story

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#any #art #awful #central #century

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#actions #been #deed #done #history

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne. ↗

— Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

#book #comes #determination #history #inevitably

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#experiences #exposed #groundwork #life #often

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#around #better #decision #destroy #good

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#been #caught #get #history #individual

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? ↗

— Carl Jung

#books #contained #fully #history #lives

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters. ↗

— Norton Juster

#because #between #book #characters #conversation