(2192 quotes found)
“It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.”
Erle Stanley Gardner
“It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve -a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble”
Carol Gilligan
“Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.”
Philip Crosby
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
Thomas Paine
“The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale”
“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
Chinua Achebe
“We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.”
Axl Rose
“It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words . . . If children will read comics . . . why isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read?”
William Moulton Marston
“I know something about Mr. Khrushchev. ...Mr. Khrushchev himself, it is said, told the story about the Russian who began to run through the Kremlin shouting, 'Khrushchev is a fool, Khrushchev is a fool.' He was sentanced, he said, to twenty-three years in prison: three for insulting the party secretary, and twenty for revealing a state secret.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.”
George W. Bush
