Quotes About Story

We are all telling the same story. When writing about race, there can perhaps be precious little wholly fresh revelation. As with writing about motherhood. It has been the same story for as long as anyone can remember.

What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this: the story of a life. No more, no less.

Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

The endless story that we construct to make sense of our lives must inevitably include the author as actor, object, observer, and setting, and there is only so much coherence you can expect from a story like that.

Aware that much of the story was out of his hands, he tried to exercise what control he could: he hovered around the reporters' typewriters as they wrote, passed them questions as they talked on the phone to sources, demanded to be briefed after they hung up or returned from a meeting. Now, gulping down antacid tablets, Rosenfeld grilled Bernstein and Woodward to find out how solid this latest story was.

There were other miscalculations. Bernstein should not have used the silent confirm-or-hang-up method with the Justice Department lawyer. The instructions were too complicated. (Indeed, they learned, the attorney had gotten the instructions backward and had meant to warn them off the story.) With Deep Throat, Woodward had placed too much faith in a code for confirmation, instead of accepting only a clear statement.

There's a story about David Mamet, a pure genius of human behavior. When told about the complaints of two famous cast members in one of his plays, he joked "If they didn't want to be stars, they shouldn't have had those awful childhoods." It's not an original revelation that some who have weathered great challenges when they were young, created great things as adults...People with the most secret childhoods can make the most public contributions.

En los libros y las películas, las historias siempre terminan cuando las dos personas finalmente tienen su romántico beso. La parte del vivieron-felices-para- siempre solo se supone.

What's the big story?" he asks. "We're slacker playboys with trust funds, renting a house on Isla Mujeres." "So, aside from the house, you're pretending to be you?

Every fiction has its base in fact,

When you visit those different sites and see the same story told from different perspectives, you really begin to see the trends emerge. - Scott Davis

Once you've got women and a border, a story can write itself. Even women on their own are enough. Women are stories in themselves, full of stirrings and whisperings that float on the wind, that bend with each blade of grass.

Kahani bewaqoof ghatna ke byore mein nahin hoti. Usse upajne wali nayi aur alag duniya mein hoti hai. Wah nahi gadhi, to kuch nahin. The story lies not in reportage of a stupid incident. But in the new and different world it gives rise to. If that is not constructed, it's nothing.

Aren't all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora's box is a story parents read to their children at night," she countered. "That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

Everyone has a story, and I will be the author of mine.

I've been told history is written by survivors, but I know that isn't always true. My name is Tenley Lockwood and very soon, I'll be dead. This is my story—but my end is only the beginning.

She occasionally daydreamed about being the sort of character in a story who could faint and leave everyone else to sort things out. But that wasn't going to happen.

She just wanted—had always wanted—a good book to read.

She occasionally daydreamed about being the sort of character in a story who could faint and leave everyone else to sort things out.

I'm not the hero of this story. I'm a man who's been corrupted by his own unbearable pain. I'm a man who has too much blood on his hands to be called good.

MARION: I'll tell you a story. DANTON: You might put your lips to better use.

This missionary aspect is probably the most important single aspect of the story [of Pentecost] in Luke's view."109

Biblical theology is theology: it is primarily a story about God and his concern for human beings. It exists only because of the divine initiative realizing itself in a series of divine acts whose objective is human redemption. Biblical theology therefore is not exclusively, or even primarily, a system of abstract theological truths. It is basically the description and interpretation of the divine activity within the scene of human history that seeks humanity's redemption.

That's a lovely story," Sean said. "We should go back.