#tory

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work. ↗

— Brian Eno

#best work #completely #do your best #fascinated #i

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music. ↗

— Brian Eno

#certain #context #define #edges #found

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#century #damage #done #earth #history

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing. ↗

— Ben Vereen

#healing #i #i love #love #sharing

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#african americans #ever #highest #history #homes

In France, I have lots of opportunities. Maybe now I'll be offered films in America. It's the encounter, with the director and the story that counts. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#counts #director #encounter #films #france

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#anthropology #course #folklore #forms #genres

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way. ↗

— John Thorn

#baseball history #championship #ever #had #his way

All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #writing #beauty

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#end #in the end #into #novel #pour