My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
People love miracle stories and dramatic moments of transcendence or transformation, and may then pursue their own dramatic "awakenings." — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the… — Bob Uecker Copy Share Image
I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a love story between men. There is a great affection between men, which exists much more in… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“Pilon complained, "It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“...one could accept Muhammad as a genuine mystic—just as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as having genuinely been heard by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Arsenal will always have a place in my heart and that is the same for so many other people too. There's a… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
The language of the culture also reflects the stories of the culture. One word or simple phrasal labels often describe the story… — Roger Schank Copy Share Image
Kiran says (the shelf) is full of stories. If it is, then I like fairy stories. Fairy stories are fair. In them… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
I never liked that ending either. More love streaming out the wrong way, and I don't want to be the kind that… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The idea of 'Voice of Witness' is to let survivors and witnesses of human-rights abuses tell their story at length. It started… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. Im constantly revising this as I go along.… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance… — Seth Gabel Copy Share Image
“Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are… — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
For me taking a pragmatic decision when it comes to art is almost an oxymoron. The reason I first picked up a… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
As an older dad who grew up in a rural culture in the South, certain things were expected of women, and that… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
I never set out to write literature; I set out to tell stories. And some of my work may be very raunchy… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
To find a good story, you're generally going to find it in independent or lower budget movies... I wouldn't mind doing a… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
We can't say anything, but just remember that, on Fringe, nothing is as it seems. There's always a little more to the… — J.H. Wyman Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands,… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that,… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are… — Glen Morgan Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
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