“When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.” WorldWellsCharacterDreamConsciousnessEventsBuiltDelightOppressionAwakeOutcomesPerilScenery Author:Richard Bach
“Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.” EventsBuiltStructurePaintPlotCoatsDivorcedInseparableSlapCharacterization Book:Dynamic Characters Source: Dynamic Characters
“Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.” KnowsMenMayHas BeensOrderFallHouseBeliefHonestEventsHonestyBuiltEarsAriseBeing HonestServantIntimateShakesSilverSuspectsAssuredEarthquakesFrenzy Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition
“There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.” YearsGamesStarsCitiesFourStreetsEventsBuildingMajorsBuiltBaseballSevenFinalsLeagueParksHotelBowlsRecreationFixingSuper BowlMajor LeagueAll StarsMajor League Baseball Author:Kwame Kilpatrick
“The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.” TwoLyingThreeHeavenInterestWealthMoralHellFourHappenedBloodEventsThousandBuiltNobleCleverRuinsOriginalityNew ThingsFragmentsImpressiveFablesImposingObscenityGood Moral Author:Mark Twain
“People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.” PeopleKnowsWantHumansHappensEventsReaderBuiltNonfictionTwinsPillars Author:William Zinsser
“There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when the parts of a ship are built together, they float. So with the events of my life. Some have been tragic. Some have been happy. But when they are built together, they form a craft that floats and is going places. And I am comforted.” Has BeensTogetherFormTakenEventsBuiltShipsCraftsTragicEnginesFloatsPropeller Author:Ralph Washington Sockman
“I don't think that developing countries gained from a two-stage process. A single phase summit (which is, after all, a two year process, not a three day event) would have built awareness, and would probably have led to more substantive conclusions at the end of the first summit meeting. Civil society may have gained a bit more from the networking experience, but it was less effective at networking in the second phase.” ThinkingYearsFirstsMayTwoEndsCountryThreeBitsProcessStageAwarenessEventsBuiltMeetingsConclusionDevelopingTwo YearsPhasesSummitNetworkingCivil SocietyDeveloping Countries Author:David Souter