Stories Quotes
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent.
It is the nature of stories to leave out far more than they include.
For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.
The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy.
I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can find if you look.
Stories are more than compelling facts. People remember stories more than they remember statistics.
Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.
I'm not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, 'All right! Get out of the room.'
I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living souls, you will see how alike they are.
When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.
I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre moves the plot forward at all times.
As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there.
The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.
The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.
Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.
I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work.
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally.
Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind of participation.
Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.
At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.
Because technically actors are just public servants really. They just tell stories because people need to be told stories. That's all it is. And yet we get treated as though we're important.
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
By coming forward and sharing your story, you don't know the countless lives you change.
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.
Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes.