Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.

Jerry Uelsmann

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Chris Ware

All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.

Donna Lynn Hope

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

David Lynch

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Doris Lessing

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

Dan Millman

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Jason Katims

The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

Jason Katims

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Jhumpa Lahiri

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

Buchi Emecheta

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

Bruce Feiler

I don't have, you know, an 'overcoming addiction' story, other than the guitar itself, and I haven't overcome that. I don't have a jail time, you know, story, or any arrests.

Brad Paisley

Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race.

Herman Cain

Narrator: Thus... the first sound to escape Grenouille's lips sent his mother to the gallows.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Antoine Richis: [to his daughter] Last night I dreamt you were dead

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Tracy Lord: These stories are beautiful. Why, Mike, they're almost poetry. Macaulay Connor: Don't kid yourself, they are.

The Philadelphia Story

Jessie: You never forget kids like Emily, or Andy, but they forget you.

Toy Story 2

Emperor Zurg: So, we meet again Buzz Lightyear, for the last time! Buzz Lightyear: Not today, Zurg!

Toy Story 2

Hamm: You heard of Kung Fu? Well get ready for pork chop.

Toy Story 2

Geri the Cleaner: [standing outside to door of Al McWiggan's apartment] Is the specimen ready for cleaning?

Toy Story 2

Barbie: Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from threat of force!

Toy Story 3