Not all events are stories.
Scarlett Thomas
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People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.
SCARLETT THOMAS When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY ...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what hap...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE But in the African and African American tradition, stories are fitted to an occasion. You have stori...
CHARLAYNE WOODARD All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton...
ANUJ SOMANY Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It was intense at the start. We wanted to make sure that the events of last week were not forgotten,...
KWAME HARRIS It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real event...
TAWNI O'DELL My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic l...
SCARLETT THOMAS I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a nove...
SCARLETT THOMAS But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using...
SCARLETT THOMAS I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina an...
SCARLETT THOMAS But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's...
SCARLETT THOMAS Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the...
SCARLETT THOMAS One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more ...
SCARLETT THOMAS I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is ...
SCARLETT THOMAS …Just walking one short path could make you feel hopeful, frustrated, bored, excited, or even noth...
SCARLETT THOMAS There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.
SCARLETT THOMAS Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.
SCARLETT THOMAS I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes m...
VIRGINIA HENLEY All romance novels are courtship stories, and I'm not really interested in that,
DIANA GABALDON All Stories are True.
JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bo...
MARGARET MITCHELL It's not all success stories.
MAC MCCABE All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.
JACQUES PEPIN We had a great effort by everyone. Thomas and Martinez each won two events and we had some good mark...
JAKE WINSLOW All love stories are the same.
PAULO COELHO And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories.
ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT ...in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what ...
LISA UNGER You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of tr...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
RICK MERCER Events are not a matter of chance.
GAMAL ABDEL NASSER All stories are, in some form, prayers.
BRIAN DOYLE All stories are ultimately about the fall.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our storie...
LEMONY SNICKET Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.
JOHN BERGER Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful ...
LAUREN OLIVER She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet...
STEPHANIE GARBER All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories ...
SHERMAN ALEXIE I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot o...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
CLEOPATRA We are all joined in a circle of stories.
LINDA JOY MYERS We do not know if St. Thomas is on the list. Probably not. But who knows?
DENNIS DESROSIERS Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE The best stories come from deep within us and are of us. Either our inner child comes out to play an...
JUDITH KOHNEN It's very clear to us that these are really campaign events designed to get the governor re-elected....
DAN QUINN In the last six weeks, Bill Thomas' Kern County has just gotten way more than it deserves, and I kno...
BRAD SHERMAN I have stories. But stories are not facts.'
'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the t...
MORGAN RHODES All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, b...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We must remember that there’s more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as m...
WALTER MOSLEY All stories are true. But some of them never happened.
JAMES A. OWEN You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can...
VIVIEN LEIGH First of all, tabloid stories are some of the richest and most important stories that we have. There...
ERROL MORRIS 'Tis merry in hall
Where beards wag all.
- Thomas Tusser,
THOMAS TUSSER I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
CHARLIE SHEEN Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and ...
PATRICK NESS I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in...
DAVID EDDINGS Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. T...
CECELIA AHERN The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are no...
DAVID MITCHELL Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
MARGARET MITCHELL Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.
TONI BRAXTON I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
VIVIEN LEIGH But then Scarlett turned up. It could have been me - I'm gutted!
JEMIMA ROOPER Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ...
COLUM MCCANN The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the ...
YAHOO SERIOUS Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff...
C. ALEXANDER LONDON All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
DAVID CHRISTIAN Smaller events are more likely, and the catastrophic events are rare.
HANK HEASLER There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through...
CAROL BERG To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and ...
ERIC HOFFER I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clot...
MARGARET MITCHELL This game brings out the most selfish parts of many people, but it had the opposite effect on you. W...
STEPHANIE GARBER Scarlett nodded, afraid saying the wrong thing might push him away. With Julian it wasn't about prot...
STEPHANIE GARBER Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.
MARGARET MITCHELL My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th...
TED DEKKER It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or idea...
ALAN MOORE War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It ...
CHARLOTTE LAMB These are great and evil events, along with the Holocaust, which are offensive to all of humanity.
DAWUD WALID ...not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn't mean they're not worth the read.
CASSIA LEO The greatest events - they are not our loudest but our stillest hours
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Lots of blooms that show color ... are not related to toxic events.
MATT HUNTER Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some ...
SIMON ZINGERMAN I think people are seeing Tyrus Thomas and think all of my players are just like that. He's the only...
JOHN BRADY Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
ROY L. PICKERING JR. I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I ad...
MARGARET MITCHELL That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. I...
CHARLES DICKENS Thomas lived a life we can all aspire to and learn from.
MIKE SINGLETARY Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the st...
MITCH ALBOM All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts o...
MIKE CAREY Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? / Jesus sa...
BIBLE They are both solid runners. I don't know if Porter will play against us or not, but Thomas is a goo...
CHRIS PARDUE There just has not been enough time to plan this with all the other events.
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SCARLETT JOHANSSON I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."
...Victoria
"...
SCARLETT DUNN The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.
JOHN SCARLETT I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON Girl With a Pearl Earring.
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ANNETTE SCARLETT Iron Jawed Angels.
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SCARLETT JOHANSSON It's a lovely, lovely place to come and visit and the shopping is fantastic. I'm very happy to be he...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.
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SCARLETT JOHANSSON I hope they make a video game of me. At least I wouldn't have any cellulite then.
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SCARLETT POMERS Whenever I'm taking time off, all I'm thinking about is working.
SCARLETT JOHANSSON These tabloid magazines - I think they're hideous and the downfall of society.
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SCARLETT AVERY Best series ever so far. —Desi
SCARLETT AVERY Hang on for a wild ride full of domineering and sexy as sin stallions! —Speedefrog
SCARLETT AVERY Hot, raunchy and funny. —GiveMeBooks
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JUANITA SCARLETT We are studying the opinion.
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THOMAS HOBBES Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
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THOMAS SCHLAMME A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
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THOMAS LYNCH Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
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THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
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THOMAS AQUINAS God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
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THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
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IRWIN THOMAS I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
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ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
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ISAIAH THOMAS Everybody wants to be perfect.
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ISAIAH THOMAS I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS You have to develop your whole game to completion.
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ISAIAH THOMAS My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
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THOMAS SOWELL A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS I always get more applause than votes.
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NORMAN THOMAS I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ The real minimum wage is zero.
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THOMAS TRAHERNE The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON He who knows best knows how little he knows.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
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THOMAS MANN One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
THOMAS CARLYLE The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...
THOMAS SOWELL It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ...
THOMAS SOWELL The things that we love tell us what we are.
THOMAS AQUINAS The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore ...
THOMAS SOWELL