Quotes of: Success-stories Keyword

In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell.

Ironside

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.

An Insomniac's Dream: A Collection of Poems and Short Stories

[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it.

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

It's Kind of a Funny Story

The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

A struggle is a preparation for what is yet to come. -Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes

If You Want Your Life, You Have to Fight!: The Brenda Saw Jesus Story

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

I Am Legend and Other Stories

Christian allegories are a dime a dozen. You can find them in any story, if you look hard enough. Even Harry Potter.

Just Dial 911 for Assistance

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Joni: An Unforgettable Story

I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones.

Kay Kay, My Super Hero Koala Bear!

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

Kieslowski on Kieslowski

Stories are how we connect. Evolution isn’t seriously about thumbs but about how we use language – that’s what raises us above dumb animals, right? Language?

The Kills

Yep, there's special eyes that only Jesus can give. When people have special eyes, they can see past a person's face and show other people love.

Rosabelle's Story

The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don’t like where your story is headin’, you fight your fate with everything you have.

Sacrifice

And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

The Salinger Contract

We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.

The Summer We Read Gatsby

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.

The Sound of Letting Go