#tory

Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever. ↗

— Eric Hansen

#history-of-mankind #humor #orchids #death

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. ↗

— William Throsby Bridges

#itself #life #life is a #living #person

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting. ↗

— Connie Britton

#american #attracted #before #exciting #felt

For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes. ↗

— David Broder

#been #declared #financing #first #first time

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#journalism #know #storytelling #you

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #food #history #i #like

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#easily #ever #had #history #information

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. ↗

— Avery Brooks

#being #compelled #feeling #history #human

With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time. ↗

— Chester Brown

#affect #affecting #content #draw #each

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story. ↗

— Graham Brown

#always #change #characters #journey #story