#story

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

#mankind #more #nothing #profitable #right

We're going to break a story that there are people on the staff on the 9-11 Commission that didn't want the 9-11 Commissioners to know the details of Able Danger because of the potential to embarrass those commissioners. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #because #break #commission #commissioners

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#almost #future #imagination #much #past

Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refrain from mentioning whether she was a blonde or a brunette or a redhead, or whether her hair was long or short or curly or smooth as silk. I shall also refrain from the usual comparisons where her complexion was concerned, for instance milk, velvet, satin, peaches and cream, honey or ivory, Instead, I shall leave it entirely up to your imagination to fill in this blank with your own ideal of feminine beauty. ↗

— Walter Moers

#imagination #love #storytelling #walter-moers #beauty

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #best #both #campfire #cast

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#conservative #conservatives #convinced #getting #lots

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#cases #different #each #generally #had

I try to tell a story musically in a song. ↗

— Barry White

#musically #song #story #tell #try

Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard. ↗

— Edmund White

#course #guard #me #off #own

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#aside #been #does #ever #great