“I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.” ThinkingCharacterStoriesDreamKidsPoorEmotionConnectionsRegardMidwestBootstraps Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical without being self- conscious: it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this. I was not totally convinced by Lurie's musical abilities, with regard to his proposed opera, but that is my sole complaint.” WritingSelfStoriesAbilityConsciousConcernedRegardMalesMusicalConvincedFleshEncountersProseReliefSubtleOperaSoleComplaintsDisgraceSelf ConsciousLyricalChasteStylishMusical AbilityCoetzee Author:Paul Bailey
“I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.” PeopleTryingTwoStoriesRegardRaisedStorytelling Book:And so it goes Source: And so it goes
“The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?” MeanMatterStoriesRegardMythology Author:Reza Aslan
“The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.” TryingPersonsDoeBookMomentsStoriesSeemsRealizingPerfectCasesHappenedCenturyGrewOrdinaryAccountsRegardCleverNakedAdamStoryteller20th CenturyGenesisModernismAdam And EveAllegoryFigsBook Of GenesisClever Person Author:Philip Pullman
“Here is an example to help you understand the efficacy of the Rosary. You remember the story of David who vanquished Goliath. What steps did the young Israelite take to overthrow the giant? He struck him in the middle of the forehead with a pebble from his sling. If we regard the Philistine as representing evil and all its powers: heresy, impurity, pride, we can consider the little stones from the sling capable of overthrowing the enemy as symbolizing the Aves of the Rosary.” IfsLittlesHelpingStoriesRememberYoungEvilStepsEnemyMiddleExamplePrideCapableStonesRegardGiantsHeresyForeheadsRepresentingPebblesEfficacyRosaryImpurityPhilistinesGoliath Author:Columba Marmion
“I make different choices in regards to the stories I want to be a part of. In my mind, it's a totally different medium. Commercials are little skits, and movies are stories; I became a little more picky in my choices for stories that I wanted to be involved in.” WantMindLittlesDifferentStoriesWantedChoicesInvolvedRegardMediumsPickyDifferent ChoicesSkit Author:Scoot McNairy
“Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.” StoriesCertainPrideAmountRegardImpactHeadlinesVery Positive Author:Tom Verducci
“The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.” StoriesChristianGrewHighestRegardScriptureNeglectChristian FaithPower Of Stories Book:An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind Source: An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind
“Thinking that your story is so interesting that other people will want to listen to it or read it or pay to hear it, that's - what kind of person thinks that? A monster of self-regard. It's not normal thinking.” PeopleThinkingWantKindPersonsSelfStoriesInterestingPayNormalRegardMonsters Author:Anthony Bourdain
“The process of radical acceptance is to accept that a story has appeared in the mind, and then deepen the attention to see clearly what's happening in the body, to regard those feelings and sensations with kindness and acceptance, and to notice how they come and go.” MindStoriesFeelingsBodyProcessAttentionAcceptingKindnessAcceptanceHappeningsRegardRadicalSensationsComes And GoesRadical Acceptance Author:Tara Brach
“With regard to how I chose Pacifica, my story is interesting. I did not go to Pacifica to specifically become a therapist. I went to Pacifica to study Jungian psychology and archetypes and mythology and there were many different programs there.” DifferentStoriesInterestingStudyPsychologyProgramRegardMythologyTherapistsArchetype Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall
“The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his pleasure through-pain hurts him just as much as actual physical pain hurts the non masochist. The story of the truly cruel sadist illustrates this point: The masochist says to the sadist, "beat me." To which the merciless sadist replies, "NO!" If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.” IfsWantPersonsReasonStoriesPainSufferingEnjoyHurtPleasureBeatsRegardExceptionNo ReasonIndulgeSatanicDealingsBeing HurtPhysical PainSatanistException To The Rule Author:Anton Szandor LaVey
“I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” PeopleWantYearsFirstsStoriesLastsDeathDiesHeavenDarkBrainFailingBrokenComputerRegardSuicideFairyAfterlifeNot AfraidComponentsBroken DownAfraid Of DeathFairy StoriesNot Afraid Of DeathEarly Death Author:Stephen Hawking
“I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.” KnowsYearsStoriesRealityEnergySimpleSituationEnvironmentNiceThousandPressureRegardClimate ChangeDataThousand YearsUnprecedentedTidyProxy Author:Keith Briffa