Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

The Story Sisters

Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

It was a good day to die.I was in love. The house was clean

Stumbling Toward the Buddha: Stories about Tripping over My Principles on the Road to Transformation

Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

The Story of My Experiments With Truth

The task ahead of you is never as great as the power within you.

A Season of Love: Stories to Help Heal, Grow and Find Peace Within

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

The Story of Mary Maclane & Other Writings

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year

I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please! Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

The doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home.

The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1

I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. Faërie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold.

Tolkien on Fairy-stories

We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.

Three Came Home

There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other people began to protest.

Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt

The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say." Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway

One Story, One Song

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Outliers: The Story of Success

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.

The Other Side of the Story

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

And because people are stupid and use their noses only for blowing, but believe absolutely anything they see with their eyes, they will say it is because this is a girl with beauty and grace and charm.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

If coupling should but make us whole / And of the selfsame mind and soul, / Then couple let's in celebration; / We have contained the population.

In The Presence of The Sun: Stories and Poems