Stories Quotes
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I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.
Edwidge Danticat -
But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
William Butler Yeats
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Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
P. G. Wodehouse -
When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.
Miles Davis -
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
Eudora Welty -
And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
Adrian Rogers -
Those who tell the stories rule society.
Plato -
So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.
Tad Williams
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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
Virginia Woolf -
I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
Michael Bergin -
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
Stephen Sondheim -
I like the stories with the historical themes.
Sarah Sutton -
Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?
Marge Piercy -
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop
Gabrielle Zevin
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I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it.
Diana Ross -
Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.
Alyson Noel -
I'm the type to tell stories while letting myself go.
Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang -
Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.
William Golding -
I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.
Sofia Coppola -
There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there. It's all changing and happening and they're able to maybe not play their movies in theaters but get them on the internet. This is the new wave, the new world.
Alex Stapleton
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We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.
Aaron Shepard -
I think there's a stigma to some degree about the outer boroughs and Jersey, and whether their stories are worth telling.
Vincent Piazza -
...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.
Kate Morton -
I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in another period. I only work on one thing at once, because I'm afraid that I wouldn't finish what I'd started.
T. C. Boyle