Stories Quotes - Page 129

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.

This is a passion story: my passion, his, ours — yours.

There are real people behind the [Bible] stories.

Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell "my" sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.

The question for us is not what new story will come out next. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

And telling a story, I suppose, is like winding a skein of spun yarn- you sometimes lose track of the beginning.

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good anecdote. I'm better at animal stories.

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

To make a long story short, there's nothing like having a boss walk in.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

And, well, that's my story," I said. "I'm sorry that it's so, you know. Retarded.

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the complacent.

The more story-appeal there is in the picture or in the photograph, the more people would look at your ad

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).