Quotes About Stories

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.

True stories are the ones that lie open at the border, allowing a crossing, a further frontier. The final frontier is just science fiction--don't believe it. Like the universe, there is no end.

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten...

We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh ?

My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes the words fly over the fence and all the way out to the feelings.

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't.

And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...

There was an especially deep bond between the eldest and the youngest. Enza and Stella were the beginning and end, the alpha and omega, the bookends that held all the family stories from start to finish as well as the various shades and hues of personality and temperament.

There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them.

The Rabba bar Bar-Cganah stories and the Savvei DeVei Atuna riddles (Bava Basra 733a-74b and Bechoros 8b) consist of fantastic stories and cryptic debates which constitute what are probably the most enigmatic parts of the entire Talmud.

By writing articles, opinion pieces, and letters to the editor, your reasonable, science-based arguments and personal stories can reach a massive audience and help counter misinformation

Overcoming childhood could be understood as an attempt to correct the false stories of others.

It is the news that introduces us to a far wider range of human beings than we could ever meet in person, and that over time, through the stories it runs and the way it comments on them, forms an idea in our minds about the kind of country we live in.

But I could I tell her so in a way that would suggest the distinctive nature of my attraction? Words like love or devotion or infatuation we're exhausted by the weight of successive love stories, but the layers imposed on them through the uses of others.

Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the books, but for the space and freedom they provide, as well as the navigation and advice provided by librarians.

We must learn to think of our lives as stories that move along recognizable paths, paths followed by our predecessors and indeed indeed

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

Existen personas. Existen historias. Las personas creen modelar las historias, pero lo contrario suele acercarse más a la verdad. Las historias modelan el mundo. Existen independientemente de las gentes. En lugares donde no hay hombres, también hay mitologías. Los glaciares tienen sus leyendas. El océano canta sus propios romances.

Everything is made of stories. They've all happened before, in similar circumstances. It's like a circle. It goes round and round and round.

Vedas are the earliest sacred scriptures of Hinduism and are full of abstract hymns containing esoteric concepts. The Puranas were written later and use stories and characters to make those esoteric concepts more accessible.