“In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.” BookStoriesHappensNextNovelMinesOrdinaryConsequenceDetectives Author:Steig Larsson
“But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours.” WorldFirstsHeartStoriesProblemSinPoorPayMoralIssuesConsequenceClimateClimate ChangeAround The WorldGlobal WarmingPay The PriceAffluentMoral Issues Author:Jim Wallis
“You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.” PeopleHardStoriesBigsTurnsEnergyInterestMistakeSeriousConsequenceNarrativeRight ThingDoing The Right ThingBig Mistake Author:Kelly Link
“Telling the complete story of VeggieTales would require much more time than we have before us tonight. Since this is Yale, I decided to craft a shorter version of the story, using very large words. Remembering though that I was kicked out of Bible College before I'd had a chance to learn many very large words, I concluded that my only remaining option was to tell the story simply, using simple words, and chance the consequences.” StoriesRememberChanceSimpleCollegeConsequenceDecidedVersionsCraftsTonightMore TimeYaleSimple Words Author:Phil Vischer
“I feel like when you do Twitter, sometimes you just have an idea and you fire it off and don't really think too hard about the consequences of that. I think my reputation there is as a comedian and not someone to be taken seriously. But I like the idea of getting out false information and just muddying up the story and making it as confusing and, you know, schizophrenic as possible.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsIdeasSometimesHardStoriesTakenFireInformationConsequenceReputationComedianConfusingSchizophrenic Author:Tim Heidecker
“After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.” FirstsSometimesStoriesSeemsRememberFallConsciousnessFocusMinutesChangedTerribleClothesDiscoveryConsequenceFruitSurfaceAdamEmbarrassedThings ChangeEmbarrassmentModernismFiltersAdam And Eve Author:Philip Pullman
“For me, there were a few things in the Spider-Man comics that I thought were really interesting. There's this story about Peter's parents and where he came from, and I thought that it was really interesting to explore the emotional consequence of someone whose parents had left them, at a very young age.” MenStoriesAgeYoungLeftParentInterestingEmotionalConsequencePeterSpidersYoung AgeReally InterestingSpider Man Author:Marc Webb
“I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.” BelieveFactsStoriesSeemsWould BeI BelieveModernBehaviorConsequenceI Believe InContemporaryWrestlingOld Fashioned Author:John Irving
“In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a surprise or three. Stories are cut down to the most essential elements, and novels (this might be an unfair generalization on my part) are big fat clumsy efforts where the reader can snooze for a couple chapters and miss nothing of consequence. Hence my love for the middle way.” WayWholeStoriesBigsMightHappensThreeRoomsEffortNovelCuttingMiddleMissingReaderCoupleEssentialsElementsConsequenceSurpriseFatsSuspenseChaptersUnfairCrapMomentumClumsyGeneralizationMiddle Way Author:Robert Reed
“The most important thing in the job is to make movies about women where they are characters that have consequences in the story. They can be villains, they can be protagonists, I don't care but their movements, their actions what they do in the plot has to actually matter.” ImportantMatterCharacterStoriesCareActionJobsMovementConsequenceImportant ThingsDon't CareI Don't CarePlotVillainProtagonists Author:Amy Pascal
“Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework of the story. It has some scientific content, however speculative. If it breaks a law of physics, it knows it's doing so and follows up the consequences. If it invents a society of aliens, it does so with some respect for and knowledge of the social sciences and what you might call social probabilities. And some of it is literarily self-aware enough to treat its metaphors as metaphors.” IfsKnowsDoeIdeasSelfEnoughFactsStoriesUseMightLawSocialFictionBreakTheorySourceConsequenceTreatsScience FictionMetaphorPhysicsAliensProbabilityFrameworkShortcutsSocial ScienceLaws Of PhysicsScientific FactsFollow Up Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“In stories, everything has to have clear consequences and everything has to focus to the end. Everything at the end will give meaning to everything that precedes. In my own life, the consequences of the choices I've made aren't always very clear. The most beautiful things are sometimes not totally truthful, and the end will not give more meaning to everything that precedes.” GivingMadeEndsSometimesStoriesBeautifulChoicesMy OwnClearFocusConsequenceTruthfulBeautiful ThingsMy Own Life Author:Jaco Van Dormael
“After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief in defense or mitigation of his offenses, and when he was most solemnly advised by the Court President of the dire consequences he faced if found guilty, Juan Damasceno volunteered only one comment: "It will mean I do not go to the Christian heaven?" He was told that that would indeed be the worst of his punishments: that he would most assuredly not go to Heaven. At which, his smile sent a thrill of horror through every soul of the Court.” IfsMeanSoulStoriesChristianFoundHeavenPresidentWorstHorrorConsequenceCourtDefensePunishmentGuiltySurvivorCommentOffenseThrillConquestInquisitionJuanHis Smile Author:Gary Jennings
“My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.” I CanStoriesResponsibilityConsequenceConcerned Author:Tom Verducci
“As a sensitive filmmaker, I think you have to really be careful in how you explore it. Not that you can't tell any story you want - I'm not calling for censorship or anything. But if you're going to have violence, I think it's important to deal with the consequences of that on a human level, not just to make people laugh.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantHumansImportantStoriesLevelsDealsLaughingViolenceCallingConsequenceCarefulSensitiveFilmmakerBe CarefulCensorshipMaking People Laugh Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.” BelieveStoriesI BelieveBehaviorConsequenceI Believe In Author:John Irving
“Nobody who comes out of the movie [Aquarius] focuses on those [sexual] scenes, because they are not the heart of the film. They are a consequence of the story, but I don't remember hearing audiences talking about them afterward. They came out discussing themes of resistance, history and memory. They're talking about the beauty of the self and how it can become demolished.” HeartSelfStoriesRememberFilmMemoriesTalkingAudienceSceneConsequenceHearingResistanceThemeDiscussingAquariusHistory And Memory Author:Sonia Braga
“[Irony] has everything to do with what Tillie Olsen so powerfully imagined in her short story, "As I Stand Here Ironing" and elaborates on polemically in her 1978 book, Silences, in a chapter first delivered as a talk in 1967. As Olsen clearly saw it for women, my not being a writer was a material consequence of my being a woman - a wife, mother, housewife, and a certain kind of feminist teacher - attentive, one-on-one, face-to-face, nurturing, the kind who receives high ESCI evaluation scores from undergraduates and graduate students.” FirstsKindBookStoriesFacesMotherCertainSilenceSawsTeacherWifeStudentsMaterialsConsequenceFeministIronyScoreShort StoryGraduatesChaptersFace To FaceNurturingBeing A WomanHousewifeEvaluationOne On OneGraduate StudentsWife Mother Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.” WorldWayMayStoriesEasyPrinciplesComfortableSpringConsequenceSlavePremisesBasic Principles Author:Karin Tidbeck
“[My father] would be proud, he would hug me and he would be sitting front-row at all the events where I talk to the youth about not repeating [Pablo Escobar's] story because I am a consequence of what he did and I have not changed my stance on violence since we talked about it.” StoriesWould BeFatherViolenceFrontsEventsChangedYouthProudSittingConsequenceHugBe ProudStanceHug MePablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“Although I'm up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing with big questions and possibilities of all sorts of stories with life and death consequences is enthralling and exhilarating to me.” StoriesBigsPassionPossibilityHorrorConsequenceStorytellingGenreLife And DeathExhilaratingBig QuestionsHorror Stories Author:Barbara Crampton
“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.” ThinkingKnowsImportantStoriesBeautifulFilmChoicesTruth IsCostConsequenceThirdsScaryCinemaThemeLarryAndrewMotifs Author:Keanu Reeves
“We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.” PeopleStoriesDifferencesReligiousCreationOughtConflictConsequenceStrifeCreation Stories Author:E. O. Wilson
“If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.” IfsWantWritingIdeasStoriesBeliefActingConsequence Author:Charles Baxter
“I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.” MenWayMayStoriesSpiritValuesNaturalModernSecurityDangerousProduceHeroDegreesConsequenceImpulseAbstractCollectivesSuspectsHonourTemperHeroicQuestsEmphasisDistrustRepressedElevationMettle Author:Laurens van der Post
“I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.” LoveNeedsStoriesLawSimpleCommonFantasyFashionJudgingConsequenceExcellentMeatHistorianSquaresSpoilIncline Book:The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne Source: The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne