Quotes of: Stories Keyword

[first lines] Author: It is an extremely common mistake. People think the writer's imagination is always at work, that he's constantly inventing an endless supply of incidents and episodes; that he simply dreams up his stories out of thin air. In poi...

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Gonzo: My name is Charles Dickens. Rizzo the Rat: And my name is Rizzo the Rat... wait a second! You're not Charles Dickens! Gonzo: I am too! Rizzo the Rat: No! A blue furry Charles Dickens who hangs out with a rat? Gonzo: Absolutely! Rizzo the Rat: ...

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Buzz Lightyear: Good work, men. Two blocks down and only nineteen more to go. Mr. Potato Head: What? Rex, Hamm, Slinky Dog: Nineteen? Mr. Potato Head: Are we gonna do this all night? My parts are killing me. Buzz Lightyear: Come on, fellas. Did Woo...

Toy Story 2

[Buzz #2 and the other toys tries to get Woody back home] Buzz Lightyear: Hold it right there! All: Buzz? Buzz Lightyear #2: You again? Buzz Lightyear: Woody! Thank goodness you're all right. Woody: Buzz, what is going on? Buzz Lightyear #2: [throws ...

Toy Story 2

[Rooster and LaBoeuf are on the ferry; Mattie comes over to get on board] LaBoeuf: You're not gettin' on this ferry. Mattie Ross: This is open to the public. I paid my ten cents for horse and rider. LaBoeuf: Red, take this girl into town to the sheri...

True Grit

...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where each day is only tangentially connected to the next, where w...

Amal El-Mohtar

People don't think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while people focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride.

Contagious: Why Things Catch On

All around us God is writing a grand story of His love and He invites us to let our lives fill the pages.

Closed Doors

Honest. It's almost always best to go with honest. It means you never have to worry about getting your story straight.

Cold Days

One single sentence, one frame of film, and abracadabra! the story’s wings would take her to another lost world, another magic realm that was ready to be explored.

The Castle of Desires

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

The Crippled God

CORALINE'S STORY THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND DANCED UNTIL HER FEET TURND INTO SOSSAJES. THE END.

Coraline

the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.

The Color Master: Stories

a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

Collected Stories

Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.

Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

The Complete Uncollected Stories

You don't get the good shots sitting on your ass in the bad weather- Mark Johnson

Chronicles of Mark Johnson-8 short ghost stories

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.

The Collected Stories

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it.

Collected Stories