Stories Quotes - Page 12

• The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Love Story, Streets

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• The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

  Evan Esar

  Long, Listening, Way

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• Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Grace, Vision

  "Pearl Harbor" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. May 25, 2001.

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• I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting truth to enter the heads of those who could not appreciate its charms.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Appreciate, Purpose, Sincere

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed.

  William Saroyan

  Events, Form, Fallen

  1934 The DaringYoungMan on the FlyingTrapeze,'A Cold Day'.

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• Myth is the system of basic metaphors, images, and stories that informs the perceptions, memories, and aspirations of a people; provides the rationale for its institutions, rituals and power structure; and gives a map of the purpose and stages of life.

  Sam Keen

  Memories, People, Giving

  Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco

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• I once started a detective story to make money—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!

  Mary McCarthy

  Character, Three, Detectives

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• Do you have to do murder?
  Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.

  Leslie Ford

  Writing, Two, Murder

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• As time passes, my story fades away.

  Dave Dravecky

  Time Passes, Fades, Fade Away

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• You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Fall, Horror Stories, Humanity

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• Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.

  John Bolton

  Agency, Government, Building

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• Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Theme, Not Afraid, Deals

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• I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Kings, Thinking, People

  "Exclusive Interview: Harvey Weinstein, on ‘The Intouchables,’ His Career, and What Comes Next". Fandango Interview, weinsteinco.com. July 12, 2012.

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• Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.

  Regina Brett

  Letting Go, Character, Love Is

  Regina Brett (2010). “Life's Little Detours: 50 Lessons to Find and Hold onto Happiness”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

  Regina Brett

  Daughter, Hurt, Dad

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• A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Art, Imagination, Empathy

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.5, Granta Books

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• To invent a story, or admirably and thoroughly tell any part of a story, it is necessary to grasp the entire mind of every personage concerned in it, and know precisely how they would be affected by what happens; which to do requires a colossal intellect: but to describe a separate emotion delicately, it is only needed that one should feel it oneself; and thousands of people are capable of feeling this or that noble emotion, for one who is able to enter into all the feelings of someone sitting on the other side of the table.

  John Ruskin

  People, Feelings, Mind

  "Modern Painters". Book by John Ruskin. Volume III, part IV, chapter XVI, 1856.

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• I mean, I'm always happy if I have, like, humiliating asshole things that I did. I think: Oh good, that's a good story. Because if you write about humiliating asshole things other people do it doesn't work as well. I mean, you can, but you can get away with it better if you talk about what an asshole you are. It's much easier.

  David Sedaris

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.

  David Sedaris

  People, Pet, Monkeys

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

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• Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Monsters, Fiction

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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• Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

  Jim Carrey

  Real, Thinking, Special

  "This Much I Know". Interview with Tony Horkins, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2008.

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• The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.

  Lord Acton

  Past, Light, Causes

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.

  Bill Moyers

  Father, Mean, Responsibility

  "For America's Sake". Speech on December 12, 2006. "Moyers on Democracy". Book by Bill D. Moyers, p. 17, 2008.

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• This is not pessimism but rather casting a cold eye on things. It is only one man's story, and I think that things will go better, but difficulties exist and nothing is served by hiding them under a poetic veil or under a lyricism of the past. I am against slogans.

  Chinua Achebe

  Eye, Past, Men

  Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors (1997). “Conversations with Chinua Achebe”, p.8, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• "We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, Powerful, Mistake

  "Things Fall Apart". Book by Chinua Achebe (Chapter 15, p. 130), 1958.

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