Stories Quotes - Page 68

The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

I love writing family stories.

If you tell the same story five times, it's true.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things.

I guess some stories do not need telling.

The system metaphor is a story that everyone--customers, programmers, and managers--can tell about how the system works.

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

The goal is always about the next story. It's always about the thing I haven't done before. It's about learning, or it's about becoming better, and it's about whatever story grabs hold of me.

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

Story is the language of the heart.