Quotes About Story

You don't want to hear the story of my life, and anyway I don't want to tell it, I want to listen to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

This is Sammy's story. But I also think there are one or two poems in it somewhere. Maybe it's what life was like in this dear town years ago, and how a lot of us miss it. Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations. Have you thought of a story? I was asked every morning, and each morning I was forced to reply with a mortifying negative

Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!

allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

A story-book hero had by definition no place in life; he battered his way through twenty victorious chapters, faded out on a lustful kiss, and was gone for good.

So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and bigotry, too mean and petty to be called tragedy, but tragic for all that.

LISTEN TO MY STORY, AND YOU WILL PERCEIVE HOW IRREVOCABLY IT IS DETERMINED.

Ed eccomi infatti adesso con la vecchia storia di scriverti che vorrei dirti buonanotte invece di scrivertelo e, sì, è una storia che si è fatta ormai davvero vecchia, ma spero che questo sia il suo ultimo capitolo. (I miei sogni mi appartengono: Lettere della donna che reinventò la paura)

American media effectively declared the Russian story dead

The scar will become a symbol.

To Teach a Lesson Often, stories uncover a gem or life lesson that will only be revealed at the end of the story. With

Again, if it successfully opens, you can transition into a story to build more of a connection and establish rapport, since you know the attraction is already there.

Also, questions are an excellent way to get a listener tuned in. They get the listener curious about your story. "Have you heard of…?" or "Do you know what happens when you…?" or "What's the difference between…?" After opening or initiating a conversation, a story must follow.

Non-verbal listening, in which the listener displays what they're thinking based on their expressions and gestures, is important for feedback and can give you information on which direction to take the story. If the

The success of human beings depends crucially, but precariously, on numbers and connections. A few hundred people cannot sustain a sophisticated technology: trade is a vital part of the story.

The moral of this story is that autocrats get too much credit for episodes of increased economic freedom,' wrote William Easterly.

I had opened a book that could not be closed, started a story that had no obvious conclusion. It was a tale in which I wanted to play no part.

A story should have a point, but a life doesn't need one. It just needs to be lived.

We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on the pages were codes, and that the Bible is comprised of heavy-handed and useless story covering up something much more important and interesting. I get the feeling that [Dan Brown] is trying to tell me something, but I am not biting, reader.

one of the worst things is when witnesses start talking to each other. As soon as you start talking to someone else, the story you have in your head changes. Human memory is rewritten like computer memory. You just get the most updated file.

The bones were on the table, naked and chalky. The eye sockets hollow, the mouth in a loose grimace, as if to say. Yep, it's me. Bet you're wondering how I ended up here. It's a funny story actually....

But...he had had a long night, and it seemed a waste to force my story on him when he was half asleep.