|
"Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, 'Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.' He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought 'This story isn't too long.' But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, 'Uh-oh, this story is getting long.' But then the story was over, and I said to myself 'You know, that story wasn't too long after all.' I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
|
|
"There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
|
|
"Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision." »Penn Jillette
|
|
"There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." »Mark Twain
|
|
"A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul." »Eric Pio
|
|
"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try." »Fran Lebowitz
|
|
"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story." »F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
|
|
"There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again." »Rogers Turrentine
|
|
"You know what would make a good story Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
|
|
"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
|
"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." »Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
|
|
"What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." »Pedro Calderon de la Barca
|
|
"Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?" »Howard Zinn
|
|
"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world." »William Lyon Phelps
|
|
""It's your story, run with it"" »Tom Zegan
|
|
"We are the hero of our own story." »Mary McCarthy
|
|
"If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it." »Horace Mann
|
|
"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story." »Walter Cronkite
|
|
"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." »John Barth
|
|
"“Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story."" »Steve Maraboli
|
|
"In the unlikely story that is America, there's never been anything false about hope." »Barack Obama
|
|
"Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail." »Philip
|
|
"Life is too short for a long story." »Mary Wortley Montagu
|
|
"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." »Maya Angelou
|
|
"Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story." »Don Snyder
|
|
"Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story." »Lincoln Steffens
|
|
"We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story." »Mary McCarthy
|
|
"I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. (Invoking Fifth Amendment)" »Oliver L. North
|
|
"In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us." »Sebastian Moore
|
|
"When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst." »H. Allen Smith
|
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
