Stories Quotes - Page 11

• If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

  Kate Smith

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Done

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• Some people are going to leave, but that's not the end of your story. That's the end of their part in your story.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Sad Love, People, Ends

  FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Jun 12, 2014

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• The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the "superconscious" has already shown me in a story or poem.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Arte, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Ideas, Needs, Popularity

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.

  William Butler Yeats

  Italian, Men, Land

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Amor, ¡qué volumen en una palabra, qué océano en una lágrima, qué séptimo cielo en una mirada, qué torbellino en un suspiro, qué relámpago en un toque, qué milenio en un momento, qué alegría o desdicha concentrada en el amor bendito o arruinado! Porque es esa poesía nativa que brota autóctona de la Mente, La música propia del corazón que estremece todos sus acordes, La historia sin fin que los ángeles se agolpan para oír, La palabra, el rey de las palabras, esculpida en el corazón de Jehová.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Amor, País, Reyes

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). "Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated", p.115, Philadelphia, E. H. Butler & co.

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• It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Mistake, School

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• My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph.

  Albert Einstein

  Ideas, Mundo, Mayo

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). "Einstein y el poeta: En busca del hombre cósmico", Branden Publishing Company

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• Cuando buscamos un caso de manual para el buen funcionamiento de la ciencia, la corrección de cierto error ofrece muchas más promesas que el establecimiento de una verdad probable. Las corazonadas confirmadas, por supuesto, son más optimistas que las hipótesis desacreditadas. Dado que las peores tradiciones de la escritura "popular" equiparan falsamente la instrucción con la dulzura y la luz, nuestra literatura promocional abunda en insípidos relatos al modo heroico, aunque las duras historias de decepción y pérdida ofrecen una visión más profunda de una metodología que el célebre filósofo Karl Popper etiquetó en su día como "conjetura y refutación".

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Decepción, Escritura, Pérdida

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). "El Brontosaurio: Reflexiones en Historia Natural", p.437, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Silly, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (1999). "La montaña de almejas de Leonardo y la dieta de los gusanos: Essays on Natural History", Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably) as a rhetorical device. Such cases do not function as speculations in the pejorative sense - as silly stories that provide insight into complex mechanisms - but rather as idealized illustrations to exemplify a difficult point of theory. (Other fields, like philosophy and the law, use such conjectural cases as a standard device.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Philosophy, Silly, Law

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.310, Harvard University Press

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• Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Noche, Hombres, Luz

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• Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story. Of course a few jaded folks in the press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true.

  Nia Vardalos

  Writing, Kissing, Motherhood

  "Nia Vardalos and John Corbett Will Return for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. May 27, 2014.

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• Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.

  David Farland

  Escritura, Carácter, Pensamiento

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• Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

  O. Henry

  Arte, escritura, dibujo

  O. Henry (2015). “O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature”, p.429, 谷月社

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• Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

  O. Henry

  New York, Men, Long Ago

  O. Henry (2015). “The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author): From the American writer, a master of short stories, known for The Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, The Cop and the Anthem, Options, Roads of Destiny, The Four Million…”, p.146, e-artnow

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• For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.

  Margaret Atwood

  Song, Book, Play

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• I think Santa Claus is, by and large, quite beneficial, for when the child is finally allowed -- or forced -- to recognize the nonexistence of Santa Claus, then the child is able to go through the vital intellectual process of reconstructing reality in light of new evidence, complete with back-forming new stories to account for past events. This prepares the child for many other disillusionments and gives her vital and well-supported experience in maintaining her grip on reality independent of the stories told to her at any given time.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Independent, Past

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• Para crear el extraño entorno en el que se desarrolla tu historia, primero debes comprender lo mejor posible el entorno familiar en el que se desarrolla tu propia vida. Hasta que no hayas examinado y comprendido el mundo que te rodea, no podrás crear un mundo imaginario complejo y creíble.

  Orson Scott Card

  Creating, World, Firsts

  Orson Scott Card (2001). "Cómo escribir ciencia ficción y fantasía", p. 61, Writer's Digest Books.

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• You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come in and live with you until they grow up and are ready to go. Don't let the old ones stay there and grow fat and cranky and eat all the food out of the refrigerator. You have dozens of generations of stories inside you, but the only way to make room for the new ones is to write the old ones and mail them off.

  Orson Scott Card

  Growing Up, Writing, House

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• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Genre Is, Challenges, Innovation

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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• If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

  Orson Scott Card

  Important, Who Cares, Firsts

  "Future on Fire". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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• We live in the world of images, but we also live in the world of the Internet, of zapping and where people move. You can make little videos on your phone. I love very composed images, but the idea of moving pictures with a story, with a plot is quite interesting, too.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Moving, Ideas, Phones

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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• When I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real, I wasn't upset; rather, I was relieved that there was a much simpler phenomenon to explain how so many children all over the world got presents on the same night! The story had been getting pretty complicated -- it was getting out of hand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Niños, Real, Noche

  Richard P. Feynman (2011). “"What Do You Care What Other People Think?": Further Adventures of a Curious Character”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Vintage, Seductive, Balance

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES - Complete Collection: 25 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Tarzan the Terrible and many more”, p.5, e-artnow

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