“I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.” PeopleFeelsI CanEnoughHelpingStoriesInspirationFilmRichSeeingGroupsShareLandGratitudeWasteDevilThirdsLive LifeAweCourageousPlaygroundsWaste Land Author:Lucy Walker
“We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of a powerful story, one human to another, is an alchemical activity in which we are enlarged and changed.” HumansStoriesMotivationalBornPowerfulLandChangedStrangeActivityEssentialsStrangerTransmissionStranger In A Strange Land Author:Richard Halliburton
“Millions upon millions of people came here full of hope and aspiration to this extraordinary land of liberty and opportunity, and helped build the United States. So the Atlantic Ocean was absolutely critical to the story of America.” PeopleStatesStoriesAmericaOpportunityUnitedLibertyMillionsUnited StatesLandOceanExtraordinaryCriticalAspirationAtlantic Ocean Author:Simon Winchester
“Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.” MenMayMadeImportantPlayStoriesSeemsImaginationInfluenceLandBuildingPoetMen And WomenMythGreekGiantsTemplesItalianNestsRenaissanceWovenEnglish HistoryGreek Myth Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“"We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"” PeopleThinkingMenWorldWaySaidEndsStoriesStrongWhitePowerfulMistakeHeardSeaLandDrinkGunSlaveWhite ManClansAbominationStrong Drink Author:Chinua Achebe
“I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.” ReasonStoriesUseEarthLandExamplePlanetsLessonsBunchStorytellerPlanet EarthReasons To Be Happy Author:Nas
“If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.” IfsStoriesNumbersLandLongevityDinosaursSuccess Stories Author:Robert T. Bakker
“The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.” IfsRealStoriesWould BeFictionNovelLandCenturyMoonBandScience FictionLaysExplorationFabulousRocketsRubberRubber Bands Author:Philip K. Dick
“If you start parsing the cause-and-effect chain backward through time, eventually you land in cosmology - does the story begin with the Big Bang or the out-of-nothing creation of the world by the word of a Southern Baptist god? And that question is even more fraught than any of the others. The stakes couldn't be any higher, because not it's not just a question of life and death, but also a question of life after death or eternal torture after death.” IfsWorldDoeStoriesBigsCausesLandEffectsCreationHigherEternalChainsTortureLife And DeathSouthernStakesBangsAfter DeathCause And EffectBaptistsCosmologyRough TimesLife After DeathSouthern BaptistCreation Of The World Author:Kyle Minor