Quotes tagged ‘Stories’

“And conservatives think the top story is Dr. Seuss? If that's where we all turn our attention, how convenient for them.”

— Jill Filipovic, cnn.com

“My body was just bigger. It shouldn’t have made my life that different.”

— Marquisele Mercedes, humanparts.medium.com

“I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.”

— Carmen Maria Machado, amazon.com

“I've missed your stories. I'm glad they're back.”

— Timothy Greenberg, Kate Elliot, Aisling Bea, imdb.com

“Limiting visual representations of trans and non-binary people in media also limits the range of stories in which we imagine those subjects. With this collection, we hope to encourage richer representations of trans and non-binary personhood within society’s most important mode of public communicati…”

— Broadly, broadlygenderphotos.vice.com

“Hey, you wanna hear a story 'bout this boy? He owned a dairy farm, see. And his ol' Ma, she was kinda sick, you know. And the doctor, he had called him come over, and said, uh, 'Uhh listen, your Ma, she's lyin' there, she's just so sick and she's weakly, and uh, uh I want ya to try to persuade her t…”

— David Newman, Robert Benton, Robert Towne, Buck Barrow, Gene Hackman, imdb.com

“My favorite kinds of books to read are the ones that do more than just tell you a story. They do more than just set the scene or paint the picture.”

— Taylor Swift, elle.com

“You’ve heard the stories. And the whispers and tales. The mythical creature that many have searched for across distant and mysterious land.”

— Chris Butler, Narrator, imdb.com

“We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning, I'm making waffles!”

— Terry Rossio, Joe Stillman, Ted Elliott, Roger S.H. Schulman, Donkey (voice), Eddie Murphy, imdb.com

“We all want to forget something, so we tell stories. It's easier that way.”

— Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Commoner, Kichijirô Ueda, imdb.com

“Punam Patel: ‘The prince married her right away.’ Lisa Schwartz: He doesn’t even know her name! Punam Patel: Does she have any say in this marriage? He married her right away. Like, did she want to be married? What was she running away from? Why was she there? Doesn’t matter, because someone wants t…”

— Punam Patel, Herself - Host, Punam Patel, imdb.com

“I got a story to tell, you know that I cherish these. Hope it ain't too many feelings involved.”

— Kendrick Lamar, open.spotify.com

“Well, I didn't realize we were really good friends. I figured we were really more like Chandler and Phoebe. They never really had stories together.”

— Liz Cackowski, Abed Nadir, Danny Pudi, imdb.com

“I now am able to ask you to read this book the way you would watch a play: not to emerge saying, "The play is right!" but rather to observe that the play reveals human nuance, contradiction, limitation, joy, connection, and the tragedy of separation.”

— Sarah Schulman, amazon.com

“If you are interested in stories with happy endings, then you would be better off somewhere else. In this story, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning, and very few happy things in the middle.”

— Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, Patrick Warburton, imdb.com

“Bodega coffee is simply the best way to spend a dollar in New York City.”

— liz zaretsky, medium.com

“Scars make us more interesting.”

— Brett Mahoney, Lily Gray, Connie Nielsen, imdb.com

“Eric: What can I do for you? Jake: Let me get straight to the point. I heard that you and my wife are having an affair. Eric: Yeah, I've heard those stories, but I don't believe any of them.”

— Brenda Hampton, Rev. Eric Camden, Stephen Collins, imdb.com

“We don’t know how all this ends. The story might be the only thing that’s left.”

— Shintaro Shimosawa, Althea, Maggie Grace, imdb.com

“We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?”

— Steven Moffat, The Doctor, Matt Smith, imdb.com