Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

The genuine object of debate raised by the [2008 financial] crisis ought to be how to overcome the short-termism to which we have been led by a consumerism intrinsically destructive of all genuine investment in the future, a short-termism which has s...

Bernard Stiegler

I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.

Jason Reitman

Indiana Jones: Willie, Willie, Willie. What kind of a name is that? Is it short for something? Willie: Willie is my professional name, Indiana. Short Round: Hey, lady! You call him Dr. Jones! Indiana Jones: *My* professional name.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Grace: Why are you so nice to me? Mason: You being serious now? Well, it's easy. It's because you are the weirdest, most beautiful person that I've ever met in my whole entire life.

Short Term 12

The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and ...

Andy Daly

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and ...

Ben Affleck

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. A...

The Night is For Hunting

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

Walter Hagen

They weren't true stories; they were better than that.

The Story Sisters

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

Beau Bridges

I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

Michael Sheen

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

G.K. Chesterton

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Casey Kasem

Faith must withstand time. It can’t be a here today and gone tomorrow kind of trust.

21 Stories of Faith: Real People, Real Stories, Real Faith

Every novel has at least three stories. Of course, there’s story in its pages. But then there’s the story of its writing. And there’s also the story of its reaching, or not reaching, the bigger world of its readers.

The Summer Isles

This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories on my mind weren't that funny.

Paper Towns

The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The ...

Adam Hamilton

Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on i...

Skippy Dies

Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories run like secret rivers through all the other stories of his life – of my grandfather’s ...

The Tiger's Wife

Stories are masks of God. That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm. Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, co...

The Man on the Ceiling