Agatha Christie Quotes, People Quotes, Stories Quotes

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Witness for the Prosecution, also published in The Hound of Death and Other Stories.]

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Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Ideas Quotes , Stories Quotes

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Stories Quotes , Substance Quotes

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Writing Quotes , Stories Quotes

The story's what matters; spelling's overrated.

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A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Stories Quotes , Elements Quotes

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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Tags : Adam Savage Quotes , Forever 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.

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Tags : Adrian Grenier Quotes , Fun Quotes , Stories Quotes

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Stories Quotes , Wonderful Quotes

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Long Quotes , Stories Quotes

Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.

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

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Stories Quotes , May Quotes

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

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Tags : Aaron Paul Quotes , Stories Quotes , Love Story Quotes

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

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Tags : Adriana Trigiani Quotes , Stories Quotes , Moments Quotes

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

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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.

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Tags : Aisha Hinds Quotes , Honor Quotes , Stories Quotes

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

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Tags : Alanis Obomsawin Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Stories Quotes

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Stories Quotes , Narrative Quotes

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Humanity Quotes , Stories Quotes

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

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Stories Quotes , Able Quotes