Quotes of: Short-story Keyword

I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate an...

Doug E. Fresh

What I tell young couples that are getting married is: you're going to have quarrels, and on some things, you're just going to have to agree to disagree. And when you go to bed at night, kiss each other and tell each other that you love each other. D...

Si Robertson

You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it's your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You're probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you're gonna have to live with t...

Chris Rock

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Darwin's Worms On Life Stories And Death Stories

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.

Practical Demonkeeping

All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

A. C. Benson

The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.

Adam McKay

If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story.

Isabel Allende

This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody.

Dario Argento

Everybody wants to be part of a success story, But no one want to be the writer of this story.

Life

Stories continue in all directions to include even the retelling of the stories themselves, as legend is informed by interpretation, and interpretation is informed by time. And so I tell my story to you, as the Mariner told his: he, standing outside ...

A Sudden Light

[last lines] Christian: [voiceover and typing] Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story a...

Moulin Rouge!

Life's too short to be working with divas.

Richard O'Brien

Childhood is a short season.

Helen Hayes

The stories in this book link an ancient story with the children's stories. Rather than medical case reports based on certainty of what scientists currently understand, they are simply an attempt to be faithful to what I have heard. In this sense, th...

Diane M. Komp - Pediatric Oncologist

Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hou...

Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories

Satine: I'm sorry, Christian, I'm dying. Christian: No, you'll be alright Satine: I'm so sorry, Christian. I'm sorry. -brief pause- I'm cold. Hold me. -long pause- You've got to carry on without me, Christian. Christian: I can't carry on without you....

Moulin Rouge!

Who makes things up? Who tells the real story? We all turn our lives into stories. It is a defining characteristic of our species. We retell our experiences. We quickly learn what parts are interesting to our listeners and what parts lag, and we shap...

Ann Patchett

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy. This was a tragedy that ended in a love story.

Love and Decay, Vol. Two

My story was not the story of a girl's broken dreams: it was the story of a girl who couldn't be broken.

The Working Mom Manifesto

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Walter Bagehot