#tori

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones. ↗

— Ben Okri

#another #dream #else #everybody #everybody else

Epidemics historically have tended to kill the very young and the very old, but AIDS is different: Those ages 20 to 40 are most affected, which means that so far over 12 million African children have been orphaned because of AIDS. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#african #ages #aids #because #been

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. ↗

— Golda Meir

#cotton #grown #israel #kind #new

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car. ↗

— Joe Montana

#car #coaches #coaching #hard #hard job

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#been #discover #going #i #know

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#colleagues #courses #give #historical #i

Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level. ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#dementia #human #individuals #just #level

Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#babylon #big #biggest #different #ever

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#ballads #country #even #feeling #listen

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#guises #long #long time #many #notice