#tories

Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes. ↗

— King Hussein I

#destruction #emerge #human #human life #life

'The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters. ↗

— Josh Hutcherson

#character #characters #game #game plan #games

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#again #beginning #beginnings #came #follows

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles. ↗

— Paul A. Volcker

#business #cycles #emphasis #grasp #heavy

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#actor #also #ball player #because #being

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me. ↗

— David Walliams

#absolute #adult #book #books #charlie

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth. ↗

— David Walliams

#bit #book #characters #depth #emotional

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen. ↗

— Kim Weston

#around #dad #edward #family #happen

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process. ↗

— Kim Weston

#finished product #fulfilling #inner #inner need #long

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly. ↗

— Bill Williams

#am #bored #by the people #fly #i