Quotes About Story

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals. Can we tell a new story?

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.

En el origen de toda historia yace siempre una ausencia

Or how he was once found on the well regarded Rabbi's front lawn, bound in white string, and said he tied one around his finger to remember something terribly important, and fearing he would forget the index finger, he tied a string around his pinky, and then one from waist to neck, and fearing he would forget this one, he tied a string from ear to tooth to scrotum heel, and used his body to remember his body, but in the end could only remember the string. Is this someone to trust for a story?

I love that story, because it shows how ignorant people can be. And also because I love tortoises.

The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.

Lo so che mi hai chiesto di non cambiare gli sbagli perché hanno un suono buffo, e il buffo è l'unico modo veritiero di raccontare una storia triste.

Quizá, para el lector, esto pase más bien por una historia europea o inglesa que no de un país tan remoto. Pero debe pararse a meditar que los caprichos de las mujeres no están limitados por frontera ni clima ninguno, y son más uniformes de lo que fácilmente pudiera imaginarse.

Nothing except love itself touches us so intimately and forcibly as a good story told exactly right.

Y cuanto más clásico es el cuento, más infeliz es el rey. -Y este rey... ¿cuán clásico era? -Muy clásico. -Pobre.

perhaps the intentions of the poet are not that important. What is important nowadays is that although Homer might have thought he was telling that story, he was actually telling something far finer: the story of a man, a hero, who is attacking a city he knows he will never conquer, who knows he will die before it falls; and the still more stirring tale of men defending a city whose doom is already known to them, a city that is already in flames.

Parable follows on the heels of confession.

Éste es el final de la historia de los cuarenta y siete hombres leales —salvo que no tiene final, porque los otros hombres, que no somos leales tal vez, pero que nunca perderemos del todo la esperanza de serlo, seguiremos honrándolos con palabras.

Everyone called that plane Washing Machine Charlie," Sam said.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

A myth is something that has never happened, but is happening all the time.

A mythological image that has to be explained to the brain is not working.

If you're going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

A ritual is the enactment of a myth.

If you are going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.

a complicated story. Indeed all of these get to be pretty complicated. But Isis and her husband Osiris

He is an important person to this story, so that it is as well we should know something about him before letting him loose in it.

Legends are always better from afar.

a gun in a film is so culturally specific to America. It looks odd in world cinema unless it's ironic. I wonder if there are more balls in English films than guns, more nipples in French films. Guns in America's story are a constant, a plot device, like coffee cups in European films. Guns are Hollywood.