| "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 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 |
| "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 |
| "Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story." »John Barth |
| "life is too short for a long story." »Mary Wortley Montagu |
| "Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "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 |
| "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 life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another." »James Barrie |
| "One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates." »Helen Keller |
| "When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened." »Winston Churchill |
| "My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential." »Real Live Preacher |
| "Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied." »Spider-Man |
| "In the unlikely story that is America, there's never been anything false about hope." »Barack Obama |
| "In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story." »Walter Cronkite |
| "Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail." »Philip |
| "Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story." »Don Snyder |
| "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." »Maya Angelou |
| "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 |
| "We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. (On assassination of President John F Kennedy(" »Earl Warren |
| "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 |
| "Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story." »Lincoln Steffens |
| "Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists." »Norman Mailer |
| "I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again." »Earl Eisenhower |
| "In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us." »Sebastian Moore |
| "If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business." »A. M. Rosenthal |
| "His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all." »J. R. R. Tolkien |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
