Quotes About Story

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid, you have bad science and bad religion.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

It's only when you've pieced together a story in several different ways that you realise where the holes are, discover the knowledge that is still missing, the questions you still need to ask.

Funny story. A bunch of people -- the cult -- blame the appearance of abilities on the invention of the internet.

A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

The paper is finished, the pen is finished, and we are finished, But, the fable of desire, is still not finished.

I don't really know that this story has a whole lot of things happen in it. It doesn't really. It's just a record of how things were in my life during this last winter. I guess things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Experience of others can be known only as a processed, interpreted story of what the others lived through.

Infatuation is the inciting incident. Maybe it goes somewhere, maybe it doesn't, but you can't have a story without it. Love is the story itself, the thing we carry with us after the mountains are gone.

Did I ever tell you about the time....

Because the intimacy is extended to Sontag's reader, the love story becomes an implicit ménage à trois. Each essay enacts the effort — the dialectic of struggle, doubt, ecstasy and letdown — to know another writer, and to make you know him, too. And, more deeply though also more discreetly, to know her.

Whatever our official pieties, deep down we all believe in lives. The sternest formalists are the loudest gossips, and if you ask a cultural-studies maven who believes in nothing but collective forces and class determinisms how she came to believe in this doctrine, she will begin to tell you, eagerly, the story of her life.

Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

True love never has to end so why shouldn't our story continue after the last page has been written

Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.

Told you, said Mick. Things comin' together. We set off lookin' for the Utz kids an' find a tree full o' everybody. That's magic, too. It's like a story. Same thing. The universe don't like plot. Story is magic's way o' telling the universe to sod off. That's good then, right? said Scott. After this episode with Emily, he was ready for some optimism. Magic wants us all to live happily ever after. Not necessarily, Mick answered. Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

The Fay have always preferred a good story over a well-thought plan.

My overriding feeling in writing this book has been one of frustration at not being able to dwell at requisite length on the many threads that make up this exceptional story.