Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
There are studies that have shown that we make decisions, ethical and otherwise, based on the way we imagine ourselves as characters… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The robot is not going to want to be switched off because you've given it a goal to achieve and being switched… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world like buried treasure-and people hungry and obsessed enough to risk their lives for it. Pirate Hunters isn't… — Brad Meltzer Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document. — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
I love stories that frame that: This is what life is about - you don't have a clue. — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories. — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world. — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Since I begrudgingly started my Instagram account and my social media exposure/connection. I say begrudgingly because I just didn't want to take… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
the announcement that you are going to tell a good story (and the chuckle that precedes it) is always a dangerous opening. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. — Leonard Michaels Copy Share Image
The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
