“He knew all the stories. His grandfather had given them to him when he sat between the old man’s knees as a… — Stant Litore Copy Share Image
The story is told of Lord Kelvin, a famous Scotch physicist of the last century, that after he had given a lecture… — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely… — Jonathan Karl Copy Share Image
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that. — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
The cold hand of history, which is for ever robbing us of some of our oldest and best cherished stories, points rigidly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed. I'm happy that I grew up listening to gospel music and came from where I came from.… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
I have been a comic book fan nearly all my life. My fascination began as a refuge after my father left because… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about. — Ed Gordon Copy Share Image
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large… — Sarah McCoy Copy Share Image
I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway,… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro,… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
There's a whole range of sources of inspiration for the drawings and stories. They come from dreams, hallucinations, pop songs, or other… — Ryan McGinness Copy Share Image
The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
I don't want it to end, and so, as every therapist knows, the ego does not want an end to its “problems”… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
