#tories

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#big #charting #day-to-day #explore #familiar

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers. ↗

— Tina Turner

#american #church #did #go #had

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay. ↗

— William Turner

#been #data #give #heard #here

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. ↗

— Virgil

#forth #go #great #victories #win

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#basic #certain #cultures #disparate #emerging

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time. ↗

— Tom Waits

#big #bring #clothes #cool #did

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. ↗

— Alice Walker

#apartheid #both #guilty #inside #israel

I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#i #major #narratives #stories

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation. ↗

— Orson Welles

#does #even #experimentation #hollywood #industry

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories. ↗

— Theodore White

#disappear #get #getting #i #into