Quotes of: Story Keyword

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

Yahoo Serious

I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.

Zach Johnson

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

Anish Kapoor

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

Julia Leigh

It's so many years of reading story. You leave work and it goes away till you see it air on television.

Jacob Young

I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.'

Lizzie Brochere

I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different story!

Miranda Kerr

The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

Pamela Stephenson

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

Jill Abramson

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.

Sue Monk Kidd

There are a lot of valid reasons for wanting to feel safer. But hiding from pain or perceived threats behind a wall of weight is not the way to go about it. First of all, being a fat adult will never change the circumstances of anyone's childhood. Th...

Counting Calories: A True Story From An Average Jane Who Lost Over 120 Pounds In Less Than 6 Months

A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and re...

The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

The vast desire and capacity a woman has for intimate relationships tells us of God's vast desire and capacity for intimate relationships. In fact, this may be The most important thing we ever learn about God--the He yearns for relationship with us. ...

Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

We were young, she continued, while she had a bad heart. Did we not want to earn our tips, she asked us and, cowed, we refrained from introducing the subject again. Her bad heart, I noticed, did not force her to abstain from smoking, or from eating l...

Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal

You know, I've always hated those stories about princes and princesses with some extraordinary ability, special because they're born special.' 'Like me?' He smiled wickedly, making me laugh a little. 'I didn't see how those were happy stories, becaus...

Dark Companion

Having grown up here, I always wonder what it would be like to see this city as a tourist. Is it ever a disappointment? I have to believe that New York always lives up to its reputation. The buildings really are that tall. The lights really are that ...

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

How does the saying go? When two locusts fight, it is always the crow that feasts.' Is that a Luo expression?' I asked. Sayid's face broke into a bashful smile. We have a similar expression in Luo,' he said, 'but actually I must admit that I read thi...

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

She remembered the way the damp, coarse sand had clumped to her legs and hands, and burrowed beneath her nails and into the folds of her clothes, and she had wondered why the British children in her storybooks were always excited about going to the b...

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

The day the earth-moving machines arrived, it was as if aliens had invaded Earth. Overnight they appeared, diggers with huge scoops, plodding their slow and ancient ways across the landscape. By the next week they had multiplied and evolved into dive...

The Epigram Books Collection of Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume One

Modest, conventional expectations weren't enough to lure Adam Brown away from the power of drug addiction that ensnared him. Instead, the college dropout already in his mid-twenties found only the big, near-impossible dream of being a Navy SEAL capti...

Fearless: The Heroic Story of One Navy SEAL's Sacrifice in the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden and the Unwavering Devotion of the Woman Who Loved Him