Stories Quotes (page 71)

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• end
• endings
• ends

We're all stories, in the end. Steven Moffat

• thinking
• founding
• up

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up. Stephen King

• time
• girl
• fairy

My dear Lucy,I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realised that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. C. S. Lewis

• sometimes
• them
• delightful things

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them. George MacDonald

• old
• history
• time

Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . . Steve Tyler

• happy
• end
• wellness

If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story" - Orson Welles Orson Welles

• hero
• heros

What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story? Michael Cunningham

• universe
• universities
• atoms

The universe is not made of atoms; it's made of stories. Muriel Rukeyser

• faith
• understanding
• the who

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical. Dan Brown

• personality
• personal
• personal stories

To be a person is to have a story to tell. Isak Dinesen

• princess
• end
• matter

What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story? Cornelia Funke

• courage
• brave
• character

Sam: I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales. Frodo: [turns around] What? Sam: I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.' Frodo: [continue walking] You've left out one of the chief characters - Samwise the Brave. I want to hear more about Sam. [stops and turns to Sam] Frodo: Frodo... J. R. R. Tolkien

• life
• origin
• you

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard. John Grisham

• funny
• best
• humorous

The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it. Mark Twain

• my everything
• kindness
• she

You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind. Did they break her mold or what, pal? Or...or did it self-destruct? Still, Laura. The one and the only. Such a plain name for a unique cutie. But perhaps my acuity is not without its problems. I ruin everything: a stupid story to be tapped out on my tomb's stone. I ruined even Laura. And an original ruin is rare. Just ask the archaeologist, "Egypt, again?" Just ask me, "Laura, again?" and... Vladimir Nabokov