Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.

Nights of the Round Table and Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me!" - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

Never Leave Your Wingman: Dionne and Graham Warner's Story of Hope

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Little Bee

People who are left alone tell the story but are never a part of it; those who are a part of the crowd, are story bound, acting upon the role assigned to them in the theater of living, loving and longing.

Life... Love... Kumbh...

You’ve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you’re studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Love Story

Mother said to me that the angels must have been watching over me when I found you, and that's the way I feel.

Letters Home: The Story of an Air Force Wife

As far as I’m concerned, story is everything. It is why we get up in the morning and how we choose who to take to bed at night. Story is the thread that weaves together the very fabric of reality.

Stumbling Backasswards Into the Light

I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level of any ideological trash.

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

I’m afraid of fear, men named Raef, and palindromes.

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life.

The Storytelling God: Seeing the Glory of Jesus in His Parables

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

The Story of the Treasure Seekers

Well, I myself, while sometimes unkempt by nights of drunkenness and debauchery, am quite convinced a man’s good character is marked by his impeccable attire.

Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

[...] what's the use of lying down to die as long as we can stand up and walk.

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

We learned the shocking truth that "home" isn't necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can "feel" at home, which means "free" to us.

The Story of the Trapp Family Singers

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture.

The Story of B: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.

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