#tori

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#been #causes #conservation #historical #i

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#always #aspects #clamour #competence #fame

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#billy #brother #child #competition #cutting

I want to be as honest as I can about the things I've been through - the sorrows and joys, victories and defeats - and to use those experiences as a well to draw from. Hopefully, the songs that result from that kind of writing will be songs that mean something to others. ↗

— Jim Cole

#been #defeats #draw #experiences #honest

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule. ↗

— David Coleman

#companies #diversify #executives #historically #owners

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#here #i #main #main street #need

All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove. ↗

— Evan Davis

#attached #baggage #bred #case #category

And there's the Victoria Memorial, built as a memorial to Victoria. ↗

— David Dimbleby

#memorial #victoria

Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#classroom #did #early #education #feedback

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have. ↗

— Ken Follett

#characters #create #events #feel #happen