Lord Byron Quotes, Stories Quotes

But stories somehow lengthen when begun.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Stories Quotes

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Greenspan Quotes , Together Quotes , Stories Quotes

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Stories Quotes , Causes Quotes

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , People Quotes , Stories Quotes

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Stories Quotes

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Stories Quotes , Research Quotes

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Stories Quotes , May Quotes

Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Islands Quotes , Stories Quotes

To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Laughing Quotes , Stories Quotes

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aamir Khan Quotes , Stories Quotes , Kind Quotes

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Stories Quotes , Able Quotes

Remakes are awesome, especially when it honors yet adds a new component or dimension to the original. But truthfully, we have so many stories, lives and subjects to explore that I'd love to keep pushing towards new knowledge.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aisha Hinds Quotes , Honor Quotes , Stories Quotes

I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Stories Quotes

Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrian Grenier Quotes , Fun Quotes , Stories Quotes

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Stories Quotes , May Quotes

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Women Quotes , Stories Quotes

I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Years Quotes , Stories Quotes

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Chadwick Quotes , Theatre Quotes , Stories Quotes

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Stories Quotes , Wit Quotes

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stories Quotes , Good Story Quotes