#tories

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay. ↗

— William Turner

#been #data #give #heard #here

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. ↗

— Virgil

#forth #go #great #victories #win

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#basic #certain #cultures #disparate #emerging

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time. ↗

— Tom Waits

#big #bring #clothes #cool #did

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. ↗

— Alice Walker

#apartheid #both #guilty #inside #israel

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true. ↗

— Marc Webb

#because #eventually #ever #ever after #great

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn't want that to happen. ↗

— Kim Weston

#around #dad #edward #family #happen

It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process. ↗

— Kim Weston

#finished product #fulfilling #inner #inner need #long

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes. ↗

— Prince William

#going #hear #horribly #horror #i

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly. ↗

— Bill Williams

#am #bored #by the people #fly #i