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JAMES C. DOBSON![]()
A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.
CHRIS COLFER![]()
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open i...
REBA MCENTIRE![]()
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is to...
BARRY RITHOLTZ A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your f...
MICHAEL CHABON With this, I'm holding up a mirror to society, and every aspect of the story actually has a historic...
CHARLES S. DUTTON![]()
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tr...
ALAN LIGHTMAN This character really does create an interesting and complex story that isn't often told. What it do...
DAMON ROMINE A myth is a story told in a historical context. You think of that name, Al Davis, and you think of a...
AL DAVIS Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA I've been told
That it's not enough to
Wish for dreams, that I
Have to work them
JORDAN HOECHLIN![]()
Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they...
LEMONY SNICKET It has both social, political and historical dynamics to it. That story is not singularly an African...
DANNY GLOVER It's a story that has not been told, the story of the daily musician,
EUGENE RODRIGUEZ![]()
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON![]()
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t...
SAVI SHARMA Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of...
BENNO C. SCHMIDT, JR. One FEMA guy told him that the flooding is turning into their scenario of what a nuclear blast is.
ALLEN JOHNSON![]()
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired ...
KURT VONNEGUT Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always ...
UMBERTO ECO Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
MARGARET PETERS Life writes itself as it pleases, and doesn't care if it gets off topic or has an interesting beginn...
GABRIELLE GLINSKI![]()
Humanity has been institutionalized and we are all the products of commercial and institutional life...
BRYANT MCGILL![]()
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or...
RAYMOND QUENEAU![]()
I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming r...
ANDREW KENDALL![]()
Yet was he but a squire of low degree.
EDMUND SPENSER![]()
whose work has made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.
ANN BEATTIE (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the ene...
BIBLE![]()
Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real h...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE![]()
Injustice! The Wolf has never told his side of the story!
LJUPKA CVETANOVA What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
CHINESE PROVERB I take in all the colorful locks that line the bridge. Each one told a story. Each lock represented ...
ASHLEY EARLEY![]()
Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant pres...
STEVE ERICKSON![]()
Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and G...
KYLE HILL When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be opp...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY Love has to be a state of being, for if not, it is just institutionalized bribery.
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Sometimes this behavior becomes institutionalized. It's a culture that gets established, and somethi...
DAVID FINKELHOR Chasing money, gets into the way of life.
RID AKBAY As far as Squire Sanders is concerned, New York is the glaring weak point. A merger (with Bryan Cave...
WARD BOWER Fundamentally, one of the things I tend to migrate toward when I'm working is a story about peop...
THOMAS KAIL![]()
Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of fo...
SHARON SALZBERG Playing for his country means a lot to him and he has fought his way back into the team. Keith came ...
LAWRIE SANCHEZ![]()
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
JAMES ALTUCHER![]()
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER![]()
For the one whose association improves, everything indeed improves. Everything indeed gets ruined, f...
DADA BHAGWAN![]()
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.
The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS![]()
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it
ERIC HOFFER![]()
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.
ERIC HOFFER He felt like the true story hadn't been told because it had been told in a one-sided way. And that's...
DARRYL FRANK![]()
Man is a mechanism for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
JOHN UPDIKE Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter...
AULUS GELLIUS![]()
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low t...
NEIL SIMON![]()
Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY![]()
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person an...
CAROLINE B. COONEY It simply tells a story about two rather unremarkable men and their tragedy. It doesn't wave a banne...
DIANA OSSANA 'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set...
BRIAN KEENE We get 40 to 50 first-generic submissions a year, and we make quick decisions and approvals on them,...
GARY BUEHLER Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost...
NORMAN DOIDGE![]()
Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the...
HARI KUNZRU Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infecti...
LYSA TERKEURST![]()
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
HORACE unwarranted response given the story it's telling and the way it needed to be told.
ATOM EGOYAN there is a strong historical correlation between open societies and honest societies and their econo...
KALMAN MIZSEI Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor...
T. E. KALEM You have experienced a tragedy that has touched the heart of the state, nation and the world. Equal ...
MIKE HUCKABEE Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.
CLAUDIA CARDINALE![]()
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumph...
JOSEPH STOWELL The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years...
BJORN ULVAEUS A person whose mind has got opened does not like to find around oneself often the people.
ANUJ SOMANY![]()
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. W...
RACHEL NAOMI REMEN It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two character...
ARTHUR HERZOG the very specific and historical relations between France and Afghanistan in the past, present and f...
ABDULLAH ABDULLAH I walked into investor offices and told a three-part story: We have a good market, the right product...
JASON GOLDBERG![]()
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that dia...
DOUGLAS PAGELS I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head a...
JANET EVANOVICH Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historic...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD![]()
You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a perio...
KAZUO ISHIGURO A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
MARCUS SEDGWICK As with all administrative matters, there are always several interest groups pulling for different v...
CAITLIN SULLIVAN![]()
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
EDMOND DE GONCOURT The only difference between a comedy and a tragedy is at which point the story ends.
CORRINE PLIETH It's tough; John Lennon is a huge icon now ... everybody has their own expectation of how to present...
DON SCARDINO In those days, there were a lot of seniors put into institutions who didn't need to be institutional...
DOUG SAUER![]()
The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often ...
KEVIN BARRY![]()
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutiqu...
EDWARD NORTON![]()
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
SARA ZARR I just let them know the momentum was turning our way, I wanted to make sure they knew who gets the ...
LAURA SCHULER![]()
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l...
JULIAN BARNES One should not wait for circumstances to get better. Strive to create own fortune by turning given m...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA![]()
Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent...
KILROY J. OLDSTER![]()
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved...
JERRY COSTELLO He told people, 'I'd like to make a story out of that image because it has been in my head all of my...
DOUGLAS GRESHAM![]()
The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth a...
NORA ROBERTS![]()
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth...
VICTOR HUGO![]()
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.
NEIL GAIMAN It's a real success story. It really is unique. I know of no comparable area in Florida. We have a r...
BILL THEROUX![]()
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
KEITH RICHARDS![]()
Let me castigate the press a moment here. Too often you get into the human aspects of this and you d...
JOHN GLENN
JAMES C. DOBSON
A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told. CHRIS COLFER
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open i... REBA MCENTIRE
Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is to... BARRY RITHOLTZ A story begins with this nebulous feeling that’s hard to get a hold of and you’re testing your f...
MICHAEL CHABON With this, I'm holding up a mirror to society, and every aspect of the story actually has a historic...
CHARLES S. DUTTON
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tr... ALAN LIGHTMAN This character really does create an interesting and complex story that isn't often told. What it do...
DAMON ROMINE A myth is a story told in a historical context. You think of that name, Al Davis, and you think of a...
AL DAVIS Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA I've been told
That it's not enough to
Wish for dreams, that I
Have to work them
JORDAN HOECHLIN
Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they... LEMONY SNICKET It has both social, political and historical dynamics to it. That story is not singularly an African...
DANNY GLOVER It's a story that has not been told, the story of the daily musician,
EUGENE RODRIGUEZ
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. BILL WATTERSON
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed... DANIEL KAHNEMAN People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t...
SAVI SHARMA Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of...
BENNO C. SCHMIDT, JR. One FEMA guy told him that the flooding is turning into their scenario of what a nuclear blast is.
ALLEN JOHNSON
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired ... KURT VONNEGUT Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always ...
UMBERTO ECO Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
MARGARET PETERS Life writes itself as it pleases, and doesn't care if it gets off topic or has an interesting beginn...
GABRIELLE GLINSKI
Humanity has been institutionalized and we are all the products of commercial and institutional life... BRYANT MCGILL
Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or... RAYMOND QUENEAU
I finally understood that what we put into the world, into the universe, often has a way of coming r... ANDREW KENDALL
Yet was he but a squire of low degree. EDMUND SPENSER
whose work has made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form. ANN BEATTIE (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the ene...
BIBLE
Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real h... LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
Injustice! The Wolf has never told his side of the story! LJUPKA CVETANOVA What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
CHINESE PROVERB I take in all the colorful locks that line the bridge. Each one told a story. Each lock represented ...
ASHLEY EARLEY
Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant pres... STEVE ERICKSON
Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and G... KYLE HILL When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be opp...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY Love has to be a state of being, for if not, it is just institutionalized bribery.
JON CHRISTOPHER GARLAND Sometimes this behavior becomes institutionalized. It's a culture that gets established, and somethi...
DAVID FINKELHOR Chasing money, gets into the way of life.
RID AKBAY As far as Squire Sanders is concerned, New York is the glaring weak point. A merger (with Bryan Cave...
WARD BOWER Fundamentally, one of the things I tend to migrate toward when I'm working is a story about peop...
THOMAS KAIL
Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of fo... SHARON SALZBERG Playing for his country means a lot to him and he has fought his way back into the team. Keith came ...
LAWRIE SANCHEZ
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure. JAMES ALTUCHER
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER
For the one whose association improves, everything indeed improves. Everything indeed gets ruined, f... DADA BHAGWAN
Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it ERIC HOFFER
There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it. ERIC HOFFER He felt like the true story hadn't been told because it had been told in a one-sided way. And that's...
DARRYL FRANK
Man is a mechanism for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things. JOHN UPDIKE Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter...
AULUS GELLIUS
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low t... NEIL SIMON
Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu... ELIZABETH ESTY
If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person an... CAROLINE B. COONEY It simply tells a story about two rather unremarkable men and their tragedy. It doesn't wave a banne...
DIANA OSSANA 'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set...
BRIAN KEENE We get 40 to 50 first-generic submissions a year, and we make quick decisions and approvals on them,...
GARY BUEHLER Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost...
NORMAN DOIDGE
Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you. J.R.R. TOLKIEN I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the...
HARI KUNZRU Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infecti...
LYSA TERKEURST
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness. HORACE unwarranted response given the story it's telling and the way it needed to be told.
ATOM EGOYAN there is a strong historical correlation between open societies and honest societies and their econo...
KALMAN MIZSEI Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor...
T. E. KALEM You have experienced a tragedy that has touched the heart of the state, nation and the world. Equal ...
MIKE HUCKABEE Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused.
CLAUDIA CARDINALE
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumph... JOSEPH STOWELL The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years...
BJORN ULVAEUS A person whose mind has got opened does not like to find around oneself often the people.
ANUJ SOMANY
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. W... RACHEL NAOMI REMEN It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two character...
ARTHUR HERZOG the very specific and historical relations between France and Afghanistan in the past, present and f...
ABDULLAH ABDULLAH I walked into investor offices and told a three-part story: We have a good market, the right product...
JASON GOLDBERG
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that dia... DOUGLAS PAGELS I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head a...
JANET EVANOVICH Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historic...
EDWARD RUTHERFURD
You will agree that such is often the way with matters one has given abiding thought to over a perio... KAZUO ISHIGURO A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
MARCUS SEDGWICK As with all administrative matters, there are always several interest groups pulling for different v...
CAITLIN SULLIVAN
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. EDMOND DE GONCOURT The only difference between a comedy and a tragedy is at which point the story ends.
CORRINE PLIETH It's tough; John Lennon is a huge icon now ... everybody has their own expectation of how to present...
DON SCARDINO In those days, there were a lot of seniors put into institutions who didn't need to be institutional...
DOUG SAUER
The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often ... KEVIN BARRY
You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutiqu... EDWARD NORTON
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. SARA ZARR I just let them know the momentum was turning our way, I wanted to make sure they knew who gets the ...
LAURA SCHULER
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l... JULIAN BARNES One should not wait for circumstances to get better. Strive to create own fortune by turning given m...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent... KILROY J. OLDSTER
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved... JERRY COSTELLO He told people, 'I'd like to make a story out of that image because it has been in my head all of my...
DOUGLAS GRESHAM
The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth a... NORA ROBERTS
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth... VICTOR HUGO
A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change. NEIL GAIMAN It's a real success story. It really is unique. I know of no comparable area in Florida. We have a r...
BILL THEROUX
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. KEITH RICHARDS
Let me castigate the press a moment here. Too often you get into the human aspects of this and you d... JOHN GLENN
I'm not so think as you drunk I am. 