#tory

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything. ↗

— Dennis Farina

#anything #because #bogart #cagney #go

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. ↗

— James Buchan

#bits #bulls #crash #dust #dutch

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons. ↗

— John Bright

#commons #every #fact #folly #house

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. ↗

— David Brin

#been #both #both sides #contact #encounter

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. ↗

— David Brin

#backgrounds #characters #depth #develop #erupt

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives. ↗

— Mary Fallin

#american dream #better #built #dream #example

I didn't act like I was there. I just got into the story. ↗

— Jimmy Fallon

#got #i #into #just #like

The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw. ↗

— Chester Brown

#angle #aspect #doing #draw #ended

There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts. ↗

— Chester Brown

#burden #degree #dramatic #dramatic way #enjoying

You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story. ↗

— Chester Brown

#events #hope #i #i think #interesting