Quotes About Story

We learn brevity from Jesus. His greatest sermon can be read in eight minutes. His best-known story can be read in ninety seconds. He summarized prayer in five phrases. He silenced accusers with one challenge. He rescued a soul with one sentence. He summarized the Law in three verses and reduced all his teachings to one command. He made his point and went home.

God as Master Weaver, Master Builder. He redeemed the story of Joseph. Can't he redeem your story as well?

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...

They fought too hard, they loved too well. My crime is I'm alive to tell.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

I need an alibi.

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.

I wanted to know how he'd figured out I was at the hotel and not back at the paper helping CeeCee write her story, like I'd said I'd be, and he said it hadn't been hard: he just remembered that CeeCee was a straight-A student who surely wouldn't need my help writing anything, and turned his car around.

The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.

He read them a book called Frozen Man, the incredible, real-life story of a five-thousand-year-old mummy.

I knew I would be in the story somewhere, Eugenides interjected. Oh no, said Phresine, This was a humble servant. Ouch. Though very courageous. Not me, whispered Eugenides to his pillow.

In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.

The audience comes to the theatre set to believe the story. The actor comes to the theatre to help tell the story, not by tricking himself into believing things he knows aren't true, but by applying the tools he has developed to create an illusion.

We're the villains you root for in the story.

It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who he was when she accepted him, and the frog turned out to be a prince. But the princess had been unwilling to kiss the frog, the prince remained warty and unloved, and now there was no adventure to be had.

And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not settle for less then a love story for the ages found the life long romance she had yearned for all her life.

The stone is called the Rose of Lucifer, or Lucifer's Bane," the senator explained with a smile. "Have you heard the story?

I don't feel like a hero, said Carlos. That's okay, said Mal with a rueful smile. Remember what the professor said? We're the villains you root for in the story.

It wasn't a love story. -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk. -Tar

Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly? asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. The nerve!

You have a long history, he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and time grows heavy. Lanya glanced at the sky.

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