There is a sequence of events in our lives and so there's a temporal aspect to our experience that brings by itself,… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
There are stories in the Bible about people telling other people how to do things. When you hear this young man say… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I believe in love — yes, I'm one of those girls. Most of my friends believe in love. I went out with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
Film is definitely a director's medium. They're responsible for the look and everything, and you're a part of that process as an… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
No one who reads this book will remain unchanged or unaffected-Julene Bair's story arcs from the cornfields of Kansas and Nebraska to… — Jonis Agee Copy Share Image
We don't have to believe the story of our lives we've been told. You're not the same person you were when you… — Laura Berman Copy Share Image
People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics.… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
There is nothing more beautiful in the world, enough to lose one's head. A sunset with a long nose, a starry sky… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
I am in an endless journey towards an infinite route, only to find a real world of humanity. This thirst is eternal.… — G.M.B. Akash Copy Share Image
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world.… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Sure, zombies can “be a metaphor.” They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
The fact that 'A Dirty Job' has comedy and supernatural horror in it, that both are woven in and out of it… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I always have felt that elders are really important. I think it's because, in my little Southern black culture, elders really were… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali poured scorn on… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I think it was important for me to introduce myself as an artist for the first time because I'm very proud of… — Jamie Lynn Spears Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
Sierra felt full of hope and confidence in God. She knew who she was. And she knew Whose she was. Whatever mysterious… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
When you get an idea, so many things come in that one moment. You could write the sound of that idea, or… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It is immature and lazy to imagine we know everything there is to know about someone before we know that someone. We… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
“In the book of Alma is a story that has fascinated e since I first read it. it is about a very… — Marjorie Pay Hinckley Copy Share Image
I’ve always believed that as an author, I do 50% of the work of storytelling, and the reader does the other 50%.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What do you know about yourself? What are your stories? The ones you tell yourself, and the ones told by others. All… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
I think my books give people a language to have a conversation about God that's not religious. There isn't enough new literature… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
[Peter Pan] has never broken his terrible habit of eavesdropping. So, maybe that wasn't the rustle of pages you heard while this… — Geraldine McCaughrean Copy Share Image
One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Personally I like the slow burn; I don't think there is anything wrong with it. When I think about the movies that… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image