Stories Quotes
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It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.
William Lane Craig -
I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.
Arthur Bradford
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I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.
Nathan Englander -
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.
David Massengill -
You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.
Seth MacFarlane -
I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.
Sigrid -
I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.
Bill Peet -
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.
Sergio Aragones
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In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.
David Cage -
Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
Barack Obama -
I traveled really to amazing places. I went to the Great Barrier Reef, I went to the Amazon, I went to the Andes, to try to bring people stories of sort of what's going on out in the world and bring this issue alive, in a way, and put it out there.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.
Nat Hentoff -
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
Sergio Aragones -
Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.
Marianne Williamson
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Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.
Jennifer Donnelly -
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell.
Seth Godin -
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
Anne Carson -
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
Etgar Keret -
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.
Raymond Queneau -
There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
Saoirse Ronan
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But stories somehow lengthen when begun.
Lord Byron -
When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.
Sergio Aragones -
We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Frank Turner -
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.
C. S. Lewis