S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Stories sell. Details close.”
“Stories serve multiple purposes. At a basic level they are great entertainment, which is essential for living a happy and healthy life, but on a deeper level stories help us explore issues that are otherwise difficult to address. On one hand a good book helps us escape our troubles, and on the other hand it can help us face up to those troubles by bringing real issues to the fore, often in a more manageable way, since the problems are experienced vicariously through the eyes of another.”
“Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.”
“Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.”
“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.”
“Stories shape the world.”
Source: The Price of Nobility
“Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.”
“Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.”
“Stories teach us empathy, and limiting the expression of humanity in our heroes entirely based on sex or gender does us all a disservice. It placess restrictions on what we consider human, which dehumanizes the people we see who do not express traits that fit our narow definition of what's acceptable.”
Source: The Geek Feminist Revolution
“Stories tell us that life is meaningful, and at their best they show us how to go about finding that meaning for ourselves.”
Source: The God of Story: Discovering the Narrative of Scripture Through the Language of Storytelling
“Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.”
“Stories that tell us that we can be bold and brash and make mistakes and still come out better on the other side. Those are the kinds of stories I want to see, and read, and tel.”
Source: The Princess and the Fangirl
“Stories. They only belong to the people if the people demand to speak.”
Source: There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
“Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.”
Source: Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership
“Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.”
Source: The Story of Us
“Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.”
“Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.”
Source: Blood Red, Snow White: n/a
“Stories want to end. They don't care what happens next...”
Source: Witches Abroad
“STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I’ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.”
“Stories were immutable. And what was a library but a house full of stories?”
Source: Hell Bent
“Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.”
“Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.”
“Stories weren't just make believe, all Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose. I saw a circle: first life, then death. Spring, summer, fall, winter. Blue sky and storms and quilts of cold clouds occupy the same space but at different times. Memories and stories help you rebuild. Things most precious to you may be gone, lost to the wicked wind, but you remember what had been, and you move on.”
Source: We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down: Memoir of a Gravedigger's Daughter
“Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.”
Source: The New York Trilogy
“Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.”
“Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.”
Source: That Old Cape Magic
“Stories You Can Feel!”
Source: Scratch
“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.”
Source: M Is for Magic
“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
Source: M Is for Magic
“Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision.”
“Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.”
“Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.”
“Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.”
Source: An Imperfect Offering: Dispatches from the medical frontline
“Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.”
“Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.”
“Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell ourselves stories through our dreams, and it's been shown that those who are prevented from doing so cease to function.”
Source: House: A Memoir
“Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.”
Source: Beatrice and Virgil
“Stories. They're everywhere...You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore)”
“Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d never end. They’re so gripping that we’ll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears … but isn’t that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful … they really are with us forever.”
“Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much.”
“Storks are said to bring luck to the houses on which they roost. (They're also a fire hazard: they build nests up to six feet across and ten feet deep, returning year after year to add to them.)”
Source: Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
“Storm cannot be well-behaved, it cannot be calm, and it cannot be kind! If it can be all these things, then it cannot be a storm!”
“Storm clouds of terror and dictatorship are gathering over the whole country... They must not be allowed to bring eternal night.”
“Storm destroys, man also destroys, so man is a storm too! But contrary to storm, man can learn no to destroy!”
“Storm Ending
Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
Great, hollow, bell-like flowers,
Rumbling in the wind,
Stretching clappers to strike our ears . . .
Full-lipped flowers
Bitten by the sun
Bleeding rain
Dripping rain like golden honey—
And the sweet earth flying from the thunder.”
“Storm grabbed my hand. "Were you brave, Rain? Were you a good soldier?"
"I was brave," I said.
"Braver than me?"
I squeezed his hand, thankful for its warmth and strength in mine. Thankful that he was there, safe and whole. "I thought of you every day, Storm," I said. "You made me brave."
His smile lit the room. "That's what twins are for.”
Source: Stormrise
“Storm in her eyes, peace in her smile.”
“Storm is prerequisite to mental gain”
“Storm's coming! Huts and homes of the humble will thrive, while castles and palaces of thieves will crumble. Either we are explorers of equality and dignity, or we are crown worshipping animal.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“Storm? Shine your light and make a rainbow.”