Stories Quotes - Page 10

• If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Mind, Messages, Want

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• We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Intellectual, Skeptical, Critical

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Skills, Keys, Practice

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In my photographic work I'm generally attracted to places that contain memories, history, atmospheres and stories. I'm interested in the places where people have lived, worked and played. I look for traces of the past, visual fingerprints, evidence of activities - they fire my imagination and connect into my own personal experiences. Using the analogy of the theater, I would say that I like to photograph the empty stage, before or after the performance, even in between acts. I love the atmosphere of anticipation, the feeling in the air that events have happened, or will happen soon.

  Michael Kenna

  Memories, Past, Fire

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• If the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human begin will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not upon the competence of the human knower.  It will be a kind of certainty which is inseparable from gratitude and trust

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Gratitude, Biblical, Kind

  Lesslie Newbigin (1995). “Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty in Christian Discipleship”, p.28, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• How can this strange story of God made flesh, of a crucified Savior, of resurrection and new creation become credible for those whose entire mental training has conditioned them to believe that the real world is the world which can be satisfactorily explained and managed without the hypothesis of God? I know of only one clue to the answering of that question, only one real hermeneutic of the gospel: a congregation which believes it.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Training

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• The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Church

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• I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

  Elena Roger

  Dancing, Singing

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting With West End Evita Elena Roger Plus News of Buckley and LuPone". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 28, 2006.

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• A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.

  Richard Denney

  Book, Finals, Pages

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• I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Made, Found

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• I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.

  Steve Aylett

  Book, People, Teeth

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• Eleanor Roosevelt once said, ‘No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.’ With stories from her own life and data carefully researched, Sheryl Sandberg reminds women that they have to believe in themselves and reach for opportunities. More women than men may need that advice, but I'd bet that both genders would profit from this very well-done book

  Marjorie Scardino

  Believe, Book, Men

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• I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Girl, Book, World

  Mizuki Nomura (2012). “Book Girl and the Famished Spirit (light novel)”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

  Mizuki Nomura

  Book, Character, Imagination

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• Fiction is about feeling, which is to say that short stories are about all of us.

  Tom Bailey

  Feelings, Fiction, Short Story

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• I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

  Om Puri

  Would Be

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• In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

  Richard Lederer

  Dark, Men, Humanity

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• Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.

  Simon Winchester

  Ocean, Opportunity, Land

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• Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

  Arnold Arre

  Love Is, Deterioration, Miserable

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• Larry Colton’s Ordinary Joes are just like us, yet they endure what we could never imagine, and are ennobled in ways they themselves might not claim. Intimate and epic, unblinking and even-handed, Colton’s engrossing story strips sentimentality and cliché from our notion of hero.

  Ron Shelton

  Hero, Epic, Ordinary

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• We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.

  James Green

  Growing Up, Virginia, People

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• As we've said, it's not a coincidence that Fear Itself, Schism, and other big stories end at the same time. This is the first brick in the next road.

  Tom Brevoort

  Next, Firsts, Bricks

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• The oceans are in trouble. There are some serious problems out there that I believe are not clear to many people. My hope is to continually find new ways of creating images and stories that both celebrate the sea yet also highlight environmental problems. Photography can be a powerful instrument for change.

  Brian Skerry

  Photography, Powerful, Believe

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• A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Ideas, Creative, Directors

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• Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the tortuous, enraging story of how Congress enacted a law that instead of protecting against discrimination has turned 'the disabled' into a political punching bag.

  William Greider

  Rights, Law, People

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