stories quotes
Storyss to rede ar delitabill, Supposs that thai be nocht but fabill.
Every life has a Scheherazadesworth of stories.
Les hommes ne veulent conna|"tre que l'histoire des grands et des rois, qui ne sert a' personne. Men wish to hear no stories but those about the great and powerful, which are no use to anyone.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend upon it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.He had no invention as to stories, none whatever. He took all his plots from oldnovels, and threw their stories into dramatic shape That he threw over whatever he did write some flashes of genius, nobody can deny; but this was all.
Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercelyas if they had never happened before; likethelarksinthis country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
What a finething capital punishment is! Dead mennever repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. Ah, it's a finething for thetrade! Five of 'emstrung up ina row; and none left to play booty, or turn white-livered!
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
For insight into human affairs I turn to stories and poems rather than to sociology. This is the result of my upbringing and background.Iamnot abletomakeuse of the wisdom of the sociologists because I do not speak their language.
Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he isno true story-teller who would keep that from you.
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
Amour est un e trange ma|"tre. Heureux qui peut ne le conna|"tre Que par re cit, lui ni ses coups! Love is a cruel conqueror. Happy is he who knows him through stories And not by his blows!
My ambition is that men should have a voluptuous feeling when they look at the portraits I paint of women. Love interests me more than painting. My pictures are the love stories I tell to myself and which I want to tell others.
No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from oldit is the new combinations that make them new.
The censorious said that she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.
Hehadaddedtohisstoriesa littlestoryofmeditationsand inthesehesaidthat The Enormous Roomwasthegreatest book he had ever read. It was then that Gertrude Stein said,Hemingway, remarks are not literature.
Keep bees and grow asparagus, watch the tides and listen to the wind instead of the politicians make up your own stories and believe them if you want to live the good life.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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