“It's been reported that some of Arnold Schwarzenegger's opponents have been circulating naked pictures of Arnold on the Internet. Yeah, in a related story, Arnold is leading the other candidates by four inches.” Has BeensStoriesFourInternetYeahNakedRelatedOpponentsCandidatesInchesSchwarzenegger Author:Conan O'Brien
“It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenHas BeensStoriesSeemsSchoolRememberUsedMotherFatherLanguageBlackGraceHeardGreekBlack PeopleMarvelousAuntOhio Author:Toni Morrison
“For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.” HumansHas BeensStoriesCultureGirlHuman BeingsHistoryOur LivesListeningFemaleImportanceTreatedStorytellingGossipIgnoredDiscouragedSeriousnessMarginalized Author:Gloria Steinem
“Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.” Has BeensEndsStoriesActionReaderInevitableForeseen Book:Collected Impressions Source: Collected Impressions
“I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being.” HumansHas BeensStoriesHuman BeingsCasesMeditationHeardTechniqueTransformedTranscendentalTranscendental Meditation Author:David Lynch
“Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. After the listening you become accountable for the sacred knowledge that has been shared.” Has BeensStoriesResponsibilityListeningSacredListeners Book:Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland Source: Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland
“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.” WritingMindHas BeensTwoCountryStoriesSeemsBrainPiecesGroupsWeekCenturyTenLimitsFilledChinaDataBordersTraveledAnalystsCrawlingFiling Author:Susanna Kaysen
“People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen.” PeopleHeartHas BeensStoriesMy HeartPensEngraved Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon
“When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.” IfsKnowsWantGivingFirstsLooksHas BeensBookStatesStoriesMightHappensJoyFallCultureWrittenTreeSevenMythologyDimensionsValleysElsewherePlatesMight Have BeenHighwaysApocalypticStunnedUncanny Author:Mary Ruefle