Quotes About Story

Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

que haber sido. Bosch tuvo que esforzarse para contener su ira. —Bonito cuento de hadas —dijo—. Salvo por la parte de la historia en que la princesa nunca se despierta y el verdadero asesino se queda tan ancho y todo el mundo vive feliz después. Siga contándose este cuento. Quizás algún día pueda vivir con él. Bosch lo agarró con fuerza del brazo y lo condujo hacia la abertura en el seto.

The episode related here is based on a true story.

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

But that's another story and shall be told another time

Questo, ecco, proprio questo era ciò che lui aveva sognato tanto spesso e che sempre aveva desiderato da quando era caduto in preda alla sua passione: una storia che non dovesse mai avere fine. Il libro di tutti i libri.

Now, for the first time ever, a story had escaped his control. It had taken on a life of its own, and all the imagination in the world would be insufficient to halt it. He felt numb.

You ask me what you will be there. But what are you here? What are you creatures of Fantastica? Dreams, poetic inventions, characters in a neverending story. Do you think you're real? Well yes, here in your world you are. But when you been through the Nothing, you won't be real anymore. You'll be unrecognizable. And you will be in another world. In that world, you Fantasticans won't be anything like yourselves. You will bring delusion and madness into the human world.

Hasta entonces, todo había sido para él como un gran juego. Se lo había tomado tan en serio como se tomaba cualquier juego y cualquier cuento, sin pensar en las consecuencias. Por primera vez en su vida, una historia continuaba sin él, se hacía independiente, y ni toda la fantasía del mundo podía hacerla dar marcha atrás. Se sentía paralizado.

Pero esa es otra historia y debe ser contada en otra ocasión.

Ama bu baÅŸka bir öyküdür, baÅŸka bir zaman anlat?lmal?.

Ogni vera storia è una Storia Infinita.

Why, this was all about him! And it was the Neverending Story. He, Bastian, was a character in the book which until now he had thought he was reading. And heaven only knew who else might be reading it at the exact same time, also supposing himself to be just a reader.

Questa è un'altra storia e andrà raccontata un'altra volta

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

Persons are encouraged to tell a personal salvation story when they attend church. No longer does the salvation wrought by God in Jesus have corporate dimensions, no longer is it the salvation of the world. The way we tell the story of salvation is frankly narcissistic.

That was the moment I gave up on decision analysis," said Danny. "No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story." As Danny and Lanir wrote, decades later, after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency asked them to describe their experience in decision analysis, the Israeli Foreign Ministry was "indifferent to the specific probabilities.

No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.

Each time, Lippmann would talk a mile a minute, and Danny and Vinny would stare in wonder. Their meetings acquired the flavor of a postmodern literary puzzle: The story rang true even as the narrator seemed entirely unreliable.

Several days later he'd worked his way back to the late 1800s. The entire history of Wall Street was the story of scandals, it now seemed to him, linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants.

John Barry's The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.

I said this was his story. I didn't say I believed it. I don't. You shouldn't either. That would be best.

Almost every story in the world has a back door through which the Devil can enter if he so chooses.

But, the Rule of One does not mean you can't have a story and a secret and an emotionally-compelling fact in the same lead. It means that the lead is strongest that promotes one compelling idea by supporting that idea with all the appropriate techniques … stories