Quotes of: Personal-story Keyword

The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation

A Hero of Our Time

Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.

Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.

Imagine: How Creativity Works

Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one.

The Joey Song: A Mother's Story of Her Son's Addiction

We can change our own life and ultimately change the world.

Journey to One: A Woman's Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

Jane Austen And Her Art

She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark.

Kalahari

Telling stories to make himself into something that he isn’t. We all do it. We all tell stories to make ourselves look better.

The Kills

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

Red Queen

Maybe destiny isn't something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows.

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

Ron Carlson Writes a Story

Unhealthy behavior is actually common among doctors, who tend to know a lot about medicine but very little about health.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

When you get to be as old and as rich as I am, it’s hard to meet people.

The Stories of John Cheever

To remember nothing," they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

The Story of Forgetting

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

The Story of the Malakand Field Force

Could there be anything more sad and more lonely than remembering what terrible things the future will bring?

The Story of Forgetting

There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous.

Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.

The Story of Lucy Gault