#story

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#before #first #hollywood #i #reader

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#cyclic #man #memories #poem #time

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#after #am #history #i #i am

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#applied #because #being #believe #book

However, I must say that I am very happy to see that we have such a positive result for our first referendum in our history and that gives me more confidence in Taiwan's democracy. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#confidence #democracy #first #gives #happy

Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#demands #different #different styles #done #may

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#designing #doing #establishing #lighting #pace

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#extent #few #history #known #languages

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#did #enemy #ever #fight #history