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Quotes About Chronicle

Her nickname during her latter years editing the Chronicle had been satnav because she would happily tell anyone where to go.
~ Douglas Skelton
Write about daily life as you would write history.
~ Flaubert
Look, people have been filming fights since the beginning of time.
~ Dana White
Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.
~ Montesquieu
I started to think about how words and stories are time beings, too
~ Ruth Ozeki
This being understood, let us proceed with our history.
~ Alexandre Dumas
I broadcast thru Time
~ Allen Ginsberg
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
~ Joel Coen
Taking all in all, God is, as he candidly informs us in his autobiographical chronicle — the Bible — extremely whimsical and revengeful; actually an ideal model of a despot.
~ Johann Joseph Most
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
~ E. M. Forster
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
~ Paul Auster
There is properly no history, only biography.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A story tells us what happened, but a plot tells us why
~ E. M. Forster
And if we also ask, 'And how exactly did that happen?' we will be asking about history. Not just a story, but our story, the story that we call the history of the world. Shall we begin?
~ E.H. Gombrich
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome 'nerves' or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire.
~ E.M. Forster
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She
~ E.M. Forster
Whether it's 'The West Wing' or anything else, my first thought is always, 'What's a good story?'
~ Aaron Sorkin
For me, the first thing is to tell a good story.
~ Lynn Nottage
Minute by minute, a day passed.
~ Louise Erdrich
We are time's containers.
~ Louise Erdrich
O desfecho deste episódio da crônica itaguaiense é de tal ordem, e tão inesperado, que merecia nada menos de dez capítulo de exposição; mas contento-me com um que será o remate da narrativa, e um dos mais belos exemplos de convicção científica e abnegação humana.
~ Machado de Assis
It was strange, telling the story from the beginning instead of catching someone up on only the latest awful chapter.
~ Sarah Dessen
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.
~ John Alfred Spender