Quotes About Story

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form, combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

And thereby hangs a tale.

I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me.

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver.

Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.

If I have learned anything in a lifetime spent overseeing schools, it is that childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

?udnovao kako je u svakoj duši u Bosni draga strašna pri?a, utoliko draža i bliža što istinski život ?oveku manje radosti i zabave pruža.

It was a dark and stormy night... Yes it was…. Who's telling the story? Girl who was unconscious for most of it or the guy who saved the day? …Well, if you'd be so kind, I will tell you exactly how I did it. Capiche? …Good.

The strange thing about Christianity was that it adopted an entirely different method. It transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story; not by exhortation, but by the narration of an event.

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world.

The important point here is that the idea of "heaven" as the eternal hope of the righteous has no structural place in the story. It is simply irrelevant and extraneous to the plot. Heaven was never part of God's purposes for humanity in the beginning of the story and has no intrinsic role as the final destiny of human salvation.

In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.

That's all I need for now, Nadine. You can wait in the living area. We'll return your electronics shortly." "Come on, Dallas. You said I'd have the story." "And you will. But I need a minute with my partner." "Fine. I'm taking the cookies." Sadly, Peabody watched the cookies leave with Nadine. "They looked good.

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa. Stretches of English code whole sentences long have thickened, lost their articulations, their articulateness, their articulatedness. Like a dinosaur expiring and settling in the mud, the language has stiffened. Pressed into the mold of English, Petrus's story would come out arthritic, bygone(117).

He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that English is an unfit medium for the truth of South Africa.

She does not reply. She would rather hide her face, and he knows why. Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame. That is what their visitors have achieved; that is what they have done to this confidant, modern young woman. Like a stain the story is spreading across the district. Not her story to spread but theirs: they are its owners. How they put her in her place, how they showed her what a woman was for.

In every story there is a silence, some sight concealed, some word unspoken, I believe. Till we have spoken the unspoken we have not come to the heart of the story.

El pasado es historia, y ¿qué es la historia salvo un relato hecho de aire que nos contamos a nosotros mismos?

Tú eres el personaje principal, yo soy un personaje secundario que no hace una sola aparición hasta que la historia ya ha pasado de su ecuador.