Quotes of: Sad-story Keyword

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

Sara Zarr

In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this arena for a long time, but I could never find the angle of what kind of story.

Tobias Lindholm

I always knew I wanted to be on air and travel the world and tell people's stories. I wanted to convey something from other cultures to the U.S. - and vice versa.

Clarissa Ward

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

Duane Michals

I used to have trust with reporters. Give them scoops. Those were the old days. It's very strange, when you give a story and it doesn't come out the right way.

Joe Arpaio

Mother: Ralphie, you're lucky it didn't cut your eye! Those icicles have been known to kill people.

A Christmas Story

Mr. Parker: Get the glue. Mother: We're out of glue. Mr. Parker: You used up all the glue on purpose!

A Christmas Story

Ralphie: [in his fantasy, Ralphie explains the cause of his blindness] It... It 'twas... soap poisoning!

A Christmas Story

Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Getting ready to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep-sea diving.

A Christmas Story

The Old Man: [shouting] Don't anybody move! Hold it right there! The fuse is out.

A Christmas Story

Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] I left Flick to certain annihilation. But BB gun mania knows no loyalty.

A Christmas Story

Agnes: Will you read us a bedtime story? Gru: No. Agnes: Pretty please? Gru: The physical appearance of the please makes no difference.

Despicable Me

Driver: [to Bernie] You know the story about the scorpion and the frog? Your friend Nino didn't make it across the river.

Drive

Alexandria: Why are you killing everybody? Why are you making everybody die? Roy Walker: It's my story. Alexandria: Mine, too.

The Fall

Alexandria: [crying as Roy finishes the story] Why are you making everyone die? Roy Walker: Because... everything dies

The Fall

Raoul Duke: Finish the fucking story man! What happened? What about the glands?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

T.V. Director: I won an award. John: A likely story. T.V. Director: It's on the wall in my office.

A Hard Day's Night

[first lines] Louis: So you want me to tell you the story of my life?

Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Max: You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.

The Legend of 1900

Giosué Orefice: [narrating as an adult] This is my story. This is the sacrifice my father made. This was his gift to me.

Life Is Beautiful

Stepmother: She treats me like a wicked stepmother in a fairy story, no matter what I say.

Labyrinth