#tory

The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#asia #away #emerged #far #far away

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#dream #during #finish #go #i

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment. ↗

— Jack Vance

#completely #environment #immersed #reader #someone

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?' ↗

— Daniel Craig

#bond #challenge #come #figure #history

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. ↗

— Joan Crawford

#had #heard #home #i #interesting

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#awful thing #came #end #heartbreaking #i

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us. ↗

— Robert Crippen

#back #called #cancelled #ended #got

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#certain #cues #each #end #even

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. ↗

— George William Curtis

#conquer #crisis #die #every #great

While we read history we make history. ↗

— George William Curtis

#make #read #while