All Quotes

The stories we can tell are those that happen to us; we meet, work, live, laugh, love, demonstrate, strive in community.
‐‐ Mimi Kennedy

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.
‐‐ Jessica Jackley

The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.
‐‐ Ellen Key

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
‐‐ Tavis Smiley

'The Storms We Share' has been a project that I've been working on for so long.
‐‐ Tyler Hilton

The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.
‐‐ Jack Welch

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
‐‐ Linda Lavin

The story and the characters of 'Girl Online' are mine.
‐‐ Zoe Sugg

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

The story behind every song is individual to itself.
‐‐ Kelly Jones

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.
‐‐ George Lucas

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
‐‐ Dick Wolf

The story entitled 'Good-Bye' is probably Tatsumi's most well-known work, and I think it's a good representation of many of Tatsumi's skills and stylistic tendencies.
‐‐ Adrian Tomine

The story follows the whole family. But pretty much all the characters who are in jail have written a book about it, so you've got their perspective of it, however skewed they want you to see it.
‐‐ Marguerite Moreau

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
‐‐ Leslie Banks

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
‐‐ Jules Renard

The story I get the biggest kick out of is when my name and e-mail appeared on 'Jeopardy' a couple of years ago. My mother was a faithful viewer, and she said she was happy that they finally had an answer she knew the question to.
‐‐ Ray Tomlinson

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
‐‐ Ira Glass

The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D.
‐‐ Antoine Fuqua

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.
‐‐ Stewart O'Nan

The story is more important to me than the part.
‐‐ Catherine Deneuve

The story is my favorite form.
‐‐ Max Apple

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.
‐‐ Laura Innes

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
‐‐ Helen Hayes

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
‐‐ Harold Rosenberg

The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it's just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

The story of cats is a story of meat.
‐‐ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.
‐‐ Os Guinness

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
‐‐ L. Sprague de Camp

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
‐‐ David Crystal

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease.
‐‐ David Perlmutter

The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.
‐‐ David Sze

The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.
‐‐ Imtiaz Ali

The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.
‐‐ Jud Wilhite

The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is well known.
‐‐ Greg Grandin

The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in 'The Public Interest' entitled, 'Taxes, Revenues, and the Laffer Curve.'
‐‐ Arthur Laffer

The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.
‐‐ Trey Parker

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.
‐‐ Lupe Fiasco

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix

The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.
‐‐ Stan Freberg

The story of 'Mirror Mirror' is in many ways a story about evolution. It's about the evolution of a child into an adult. It's about the evolution of those dwarves into something a little less rock-like, a little more humanoid. It's about the evolution of history, too, from the darkness of the Middle Ages into the light of the Age of Reason.
‐‐ Gregory Maguire

The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.
‐‐ Michael Shnayerson

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
‐‐ Greta Garbo

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon