#story

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#best #casts #causes #certain #greatest

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history. ↗

— Anita Baker

#capture #close #come #completeness #describing

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#beginning #end #forgotten #how #middle

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#history #history books #i #lot #read

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

#dead #dumb #history #me #philosophy

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#history #human #human race #misfortunes #nothing

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.' ↗

— James Belushi

#avalanche #celebrity #comes #complicated #death

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#escape #how #interests #only #reality

Value people on their potential, not on their history. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#people #potential #their #value

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification. ↗

— James Gordon Bennett

#good #many #newspaper #over #ruined