Stories Quotes
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
Wes Moore
This is a consensus view among scholars today. For one thing, Matthew used Mark as a source for many of his stories, copying out the Greek word for word in some passages. If our Matthew was a Greek translation of a Hebrew original, it would not be possible to explain the verbatim agreement of Matthew with Mark in the Greek itself.
Bart Ehrman
It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.
Alexei Panshin
I kept writing short stories and sending out my manuscript, and it kept coming back like a bad penny. It was rejected all over town, quite often in very complimentary terms, but rejected nonetheless. Agents would return it saying that they loved it but didn't think they could sell it, or they would ask if I could change the collection into linked stories.
Debra Dean
I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.
Wes Anderson
I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.
Stephen Sondheim
The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
Rebel Wilson
We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
Elliott Colla
We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.
Bill Willingham
I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.
Morris Chestnut
Stories are not complicated. They are, in fact, deceptively simple. But like anything simple, they are difficult to create.
Brian McDonald
You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
Sara Shepard