Quotes About Stories

So it goes,' Prosper Lost said, a little sadly. 'There are some stories you never get to finish.

But I will take a page from the book of the Snow Scout leader, and skip ahead to the next interesting thing that happened, which was very, very late at night, when so many interesting parts of stories happen and so many people miss them because they are asleep in their beds, or hiding in the broom closet of a mustard factory, disguised as a dustpan to fool the night watchwoman. It

Newspaper stories aren't always accurate," Klaus said nervously. The shopkeeper frowned. "Nonsense," he said. "The Daily Punctilio wouldn't print things that aren't true. If the newspaper says somebody is a murderer, then they are a murderer and that's the end of it. Now you said you wanted to send a telegram?

In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with out eyes closed, and all out stories end the same way, too.

Life is like this, and literature, imaginary conversations and true stories mingling like languages in translation.

There are some stories you never get to finish.

the stories that end in The End that began in The Bad Beginning are beginning to end now.

All these things are miracles. It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season -- like all other seasons -- is a good time not only to tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them, and that's the end of this particular story.

For that matter, even if the owners and workers in a historic site had not included a president, most visitors would want to hear about the important events in their lives, not just about their furniture.

Stories retold are stories remade.

You see, my dear ice witch, I have had the love of children from all over the world because of my stories. A child's love is the perfect love, for it is given with a whole heart. That love will outlast me a hundredfold. And it will outlast you as well.

People tell journalists their stories as characters and dreams deliver their elliptical messages: without warning, without context, without concern for how odd they will sound when the dreamer awakens and repeats them.

Trials are won by attorneys whose stories fit, and lost by those whose stories are like the shapeless housecoat that truth, in her disdain of appearances, has chosen as her uniform.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

I'm always amazed how many politicians have a very unlikely story, and when I talk to groups of students, I remind them that not everybody who gets into politics is a lawyer or went to school to study it. We all come to it for different reasons.

I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential.

NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.

I really enjoy working. I really enjoy telling stories. I really enjoy acting. The idea that I would have a baby and stop doing that was unrealistic to me.

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'

From the outside looking in, I would say the franchise that has had the most stories that are unrelated to basketball are the Knicks.

When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now.

It would be meaningful if 'Taxi Driver' were to reinterpret cases that were unresolved in the past. A 16-episode miniseries was too short to contain all the stories that we could have told.