Appendix Quote by Scott McClanahan Download Open image ““Stories can actually rearrange continents if they're told long enough.”” — Scott McClanahan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appendix Notes
“Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.” — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“True stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“that each affects the other and tho other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places.” — Robert Crichton Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not, stories don’t function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.” — FILM CRIT HULK Copy Share Image
“A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there is finally no telling exactly where it… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
“As a rule the tales which get abroad in the world are false. . . . People always exaggerate things. More so, when months and years have passed and the place is distant do they relate any story they please, or even it put down in writing, so that at least it becomes established fact. . . . Anyhow, it… — Yoshida Kenko Copy Share
“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.” — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
“If we had the power to rewrite our histories, what stories would we tell?” — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
“Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Stories always started this way, suddenly, and set within a strange world. Patience is required, to let the stories unroll. This is how people… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Most of the answers to the world could be answered with our bodies. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“I thought about what my mom always said about this part of Texas, “Oh Godforsaken land. I don’t know why anybody would want to… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I think a pretty good modus operandi is to believe that everything we know is wrong. The stomach will be the key to depression… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
“I walked up to the side of the mountain like I used to do when I was a little boy. I looked out over Rainelle and watched it shine. The coal trucks and the logging trucks were still gunning it through town. They were still clear cutting the mountains and cutting the coal from the ground. Then I heard my… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share
The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
With my stuff, I think I've tried. I've been courted. I don't want to sound like an asshole, but I've been courted to be… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it? — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose… — Erich Fromm Copy Share
*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I had my appendix out when I was 11, and that was the last time I was in a hospital. That was a one-night… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share
In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It should be done with the same degree of alacrity and nonchalance that you would display in authorizing a highly intelligent trained bear to… — Daniel S Greenberg Copy Share Image
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré. — Georges Clemenceau Copy Share Image
“Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that biological systems are designed, it seems that determining a biological system to be designed is akin to shrugging our shoulders and saying God did it. The fear is that admitting design as an explanation will stifle scientific inquiry, that scientists will stop… — William A. Dembski Copy Share
Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface,not concluded… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image