Best limits & stories Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.”

Years Looks Stories Grows Growing Up Limits Draws Biblical Inclination

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that, like China, has been off-limits. Suddenly, the country has opened its borders and is crawling with foreign correspondents, neurobiologists are filing ten stories a week, filled with new data. These two groups of writers, however, don't seem to read each other's work. That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.”

Writing Mind Has Beens Two Country Stories Seems Brain Pieces Groups Week Century Ten Limits Filled China Data Borders Traveled Analysts Crawling Filing

Author:Susanna Kaysen

“It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.”

Mean Art Enough Stories Interesting Consciousness Our Lives Happened Bears Limits Art Is Driven Tragic Engines Anecdotes Tragic Life

Book:Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There

“There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.”

Stories Numbers Limits Plot

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The male intimacy and raw honesty was already developing on the page 'Oscillate Wildly' with these characters. Being explicit would not only distract and alienate certain audiences, it would limit who has access to the film, and that's something I think a lot about with this story.”

Thinking Character Stories Film Certain Audience Honesty Limits Pages Males Access Intimacy Developing Explicit

Author:Travis Mathews

“Having certain limits - not too many, but certain limits on an ability to tell a story - makes us work harder, me and my writers. Sometimes I watch a giant movie with a $250 million budget and I think they feel kind of bloated, and that if they'd been leaner and meaner they might've had better storytelling.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Kind Sometimes Stories Might Certain Ability Watches Millions Hard Work Limits Harder Storytelling Budgets Giants Work Harder

Author:Vince Gilligan

“It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.”

Two Stories Light Sound Sky Limits Add Neighbour Skyscraper Statesmanship Soundness

Book:Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910

Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910

“When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our allegedly preordained destiny out there among the stars, all that means is that they have a single story wedged into their imagination so tightly that mere reality can't shake it loose.”

People Mean Stories Reality Courses Stars Growth Imagination Destiny Limits Overcoming Mere Obstacles Shakes

Author:John Michael Greer

“The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.”

Writing Stories Song Difficult Fiction Events Pure Limits

Author:Jason Mraz

“Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up or back down.Now you are writing a new chapter of that story. This campaign [2016] is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us. And this our moment to come together.”

Giving Writing Moments Stories Together Generations Limits Giving Up Moved Campaigns Thanks Chapters Ceilings

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I'm very much drawn to these stories. This is a huge, great story [in Doctor Strange] about the possibility of living beyond everything, living beyond mortality, living beyond all the immortal confines, living beyond the planet as we know it. It's mind-blowingly no limits, and I think this is going to be something else.”

Thinking Knows Mind Stories Possibility Strange Planets Huge Limits Doctors Immortal Mortality

Author:Tilda Swinton

“We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.”

Kind Made Stories Forever Goes On Limits Immortality

Author:Charles de Lint

“I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?”

Ifs World Ends Stories Reality Life Is Language Clear Mystery Type Praying Limits This Life Make Sense I Pray Life Is Like After Death Life After Death

Author:Scarlett Thomas

“Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”

Way Mind Wells Looks Stories Eye Order Conditions Limits Photography Sight Photograph

Author:Roland Barthes

“So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her,turn her to into a stranger, only not. So you want to hear the whole story. Why I swerved off the high road, hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to those coughing my dust, picked up speed no limits,no top end, just a high velocity rush to madness.”

Source: Crank

“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.”

Writing Stories Grief Achieve Taught Flower Limits Survival Garden Fingers Gardening Exhaustion Writing Stories

Author:Eudora Welty

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