Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

Against All Odds: A Story Of Courage, Perseverance And Hope

He gathered enthusiasm when he thought of the goal, and not the means by which he had accomplished it.

Atlantis and Other Places: Stories of Alternate History

Twenty to life, she got, with time off for good behavior. You come around next spring. I'll introduce you.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Go Bump in the Night

Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success.

Adventurers Against Their Will: Extraordinary World War II Stories of Survival, Escape, and Connection-Unlike Any Others

And it feels good to feel young with you, and at the same time to grow old with you. And it's all those things together at the same moment.

All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. 

The American Storybag

A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.

In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

The rule in life is like with tennis: One point won't lose you the match, but if you let it get to you, it will.

Hank Butterfield: The Story of a Tennis Star

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

How Music Works

When you have a steady and lifelong group of girlfriends, chances are the person you're telling the story to is actually part of the story.

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Inkspell

They do make love stories for girls with black hearts after all. They go like this.

I'll Give You the Sun

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.

I Work at a Public Library: A Collection of Crazy Stories from the Stacks

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

King's Cross: The Story of the World in the Life of Jesus

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.

The Red Notebook: True Stories

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

In the spirit of the Alpha and the Omega, in the way the Alpha was the Omega, and vice versa, he knew the beginning was also the end—and that the end was just another beginning.

Snooze: A Story of Awakening

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.

Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores