#story

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

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#always #assassination #boy #coffin #father

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything. ↗

— Usain Bolt

#history #i #know #like #people

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#action film #film #gets #going #good

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view. ↗

— Bjorn Borg

#compelling #controversial #different #fascinated #i

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#her #homes #i #imagine #instead

Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#natural-history #page- #dating

Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#cheers #course #describe #editor #erm

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story. ↗

— Elena Anaya

#choose #director #i #i always #like