#stories

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#iliad #indeed #magnificent #much #odyssey

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#get #i #inspiration #stories #unconventional

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about. ↗

— Tom Scholz

#big #cable #channel #corporation #every

Yes, there have to be places for safe wonderful stories. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#safe #stories #wonderful #yes

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#australian film #been #film #film industry #industry

We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#got #know #many #stories #take

Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#dramatic #fiction #his #love #love stories

It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#anywhere #basic #descriptions #easy #get

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. ↗

— Dick Smothers

#fun #go #having #having fun #hey

Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#architecture