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Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. ANON.
Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. W... RACHEL NAOMI REMEN I think that's the real reason, sometimes, that people talk about my stories as being scary, bec...
MARY GAITSKILL
Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, act... KATE FORSYTH
All of us are in in shock, ... This is a senseless and unexplainable act that goes beyond the pale. ... GAVIN NEWSOM What we notice is what resonates with our inner perspective. We tend to overlook what does not conne...
GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT
There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories ... CHARLES DE LINT Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life go...
FEDERICA MOGHERINI
It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke. CAMERON CONAWAY
The Bible give us a list of human stories on both sides of the ledger. On list of human stories is u... JIM ROHN We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian storie...
YAHOO SERIOUS What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might no...
INA MAY GASKIN
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes th... ARUNDHATI ROY My buddy tells me a lot of interesting stories about what goes on in prison - it just makes my head ...
AARON DOUGLAS Like life, what gives a story its meaning is the fact that it ends. Our stories have lives of their ...
FRANCESCA ZAPPIA
Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on en...
BILL WALTON We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It ...
WILLIAM KITTREDGE The beauty of life is that hope abounds. Hey, life goes on. Make the best of what you've got.
JANET RAY
Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and oursel... NATHAN MYHRVOLD
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patr... ALBERT EINSTEIN
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patr... ALBERT EINSTEIN
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by the name of pat... STEPHEN DECATUR
We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. No... CHARLES DE LINT
Children are extremely perceptive and absorb what goes on around them long before they can talk or e... THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN
My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down - everything that goes on... RAY BRADBURY Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.
JUDY BLUME
All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. LEO TOLSTOY
The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. Th... JONATHAN STROUD
Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a... NICHOLAS SPARKS It makes sense to do it this way. Fuel exchange goes on all the time.
COLIN MCCLELLAND Coach is very intense and he wants us to do our best off the court and on the court. He expects so m...
KRYSTLE HORTON Toy is talking and this is why I love her. She can go on about herself ceaselessly and like the scra...
ERICA LORRAINE SCHEIDT
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during ... RAY BRADBURY
My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during th... RAY BRADBURY To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native Ameri...
RICHARD KING Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories a...
STEPHEN R. LAWHEAD
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi... PHILIP PULLMAN
Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to o... JULIANNA BAGGOTT What goes around, comes around. For years it was all about us. Now it's all about them.
GENE NAKAMURA Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies...
MARK BURNETT
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, dra... BARBARA DE ANGELIS
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, dra... BARBARA DE ANGELIS What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, dra...
BARBARA ANGELIS
How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the l... JULIAN BARNES So they sitting on their time bombNow I know the time has comeTelling you what goes up is coming on ...
DAMIAN MARLEY The scale of change is much smaller than what goes on during the critical period of development, but...
ELLY NEDIVI She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such storie...
MEAGAN SPOONER The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject....
CHARLES PLATT
Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on. MARY ANN SHAFFER
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard a... CHUCK PALAHNIUK
The storyteller's claim, I believe, is that life has meaning—that the things that happen to people... FREDERICK BUECHNER
Trying to make sense of what makes no sense can render you senseless. Let it go. SANJO JENDAYI You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out i...
MAJEL BARRETT There's always a minor character in stories who make the biggest sacrifices when sadly, their effort...
J C A ROWE We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not ...
PATRICIA HAMPL History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The tr...
PAUL MURRAY Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out ...
BRANDON GARIC NOTCH Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectua...
NANCY KRESS Coach Fox does a good job of keeping us focused on what goes on in here. We don't focus on what goes...
MARLON MCCREE
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered... ASHWIN SANGHI
Life turns on a dime. Sometimes towards us, but more often it spins away, flirting and flashing as i... STEPHEN KING a lot of shit happens , then we realise that life is so fucking unfair .. but guess what ? life stil...
LOOKA AD
What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want th... JESSICA ABEL I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in th...
SUZANNE FARRELL People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t...
SAVI SHARMA
I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scien... MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. STEPHEN R. COVEY
Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right ... JOHN COREY WHALEY I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what...
FRANK STELLA
We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and ... DONALD MILLER We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to hire loc...
DOUG ADAMS That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca...
SAM RAIMI
Is it my relative sanity that makes my life here so painful, so desperate, so hopeless? Loosen my gr... EMILIE AUTUMN You know... we all have stories. We all have unique experiences that make each and everyone of us di...
G. BRIAN BENSON
Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our si... JOAN D. VINGE
So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get sha... JOHN MARSDEN Sometimes it is easy going.Sometimes it is too difficult but in every situation. Life Goes On! Eithe...
IQBAL HUSSAIN
Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but... FRANS DE WAAL Time goes by, life goes on, and all I can think of is why you're gone
DIRTY DANCING Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we ...
ROBIN CHASE
...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what hap... RABIH ALAMEDDINE He's kind of what makes us go. He's our team captain. He doesn't say much, but it's just the way he ...
GREG APPLETON What our closest friends do for us is to teach us true selflessness. We learn that while it might be...
MARK MOSSA Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel les...
TIM O'BRIEN As the game goes on, I usually get stronger and more comfortable and have a better feel for what to ...
RICKY WILLIAMS Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.
NINA SANKOVITCH
In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflo... CRISS JAMI IVGID is central to what goes on in this community. It makes sense to come to them to ask for help i...
CARL HASTY
In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't w... CARL SANDBURG It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make p...
FRANCOIS HOUGAARD That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capabl...
SAM RAIMI
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of... DANIEL TAMMET
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes s... ALDOUS HUXLEY The moment we accept our pain is the moment we release our suffering. Suffering is created when we o...
ALARIC HUTCHINSON I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most ch...
CHAD LOWE
Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ... COLUM MCCANN
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encycloped... SARAH KAY
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... 
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b... 
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi... 
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... 
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 
As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot... 
When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent. 
My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers. 
I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop... 
I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ... 
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ... 
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i... 
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. 
Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte... 
Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else. 
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... 
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ... 
Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! 
With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... 
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 
Old friends are best. 
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. 
Rome was not built in one day. 
The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. 
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr... 
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ... 
I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ... 
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. 
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress... 
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. 
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. 
The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do. 
I can never consent to being dictated to. 
There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles! 
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim... 
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd... 
You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo... 
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre... 
There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism. 
It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec... 
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra... 
Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens. 
In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima... 
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t... 
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. 