#tories

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ↗

— Scott Fitzgerald

#fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #age

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ↗

— Rumi

#creativity #empowerment #independence #inspirational-stories #self-confidence

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#happiness #stories #happy

As we saw in the Queen's Speech, anti-social behaviour - a phenomenon that I believe to be a genuine worry that is also being fed by a lot of scare stories - is the political theme of the moment. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#behaviour #being #believe #fed #genuine

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, 'tough this and tough that.' Then there is this business about 'gooey.' The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#am #because #bottom #bottom line #business

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#ghost #ghost stories #ghosts #more #science

Pa never told stories like Grandpa. Or treated the barn like family. Eli knew how Grandpa’s own pa had built the barn by hand, hauling bluestone for the foundation behind a stubborn ox with horns as wide as a tractor. How the smell of the plank walls was like family and how you never washed your chore coat so the animals would smell that you were family, too. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #belonging #family #little-joe #nature

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forget #forgetting #literature #literature-quotes #old-stories

College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. ↗

— Judd Apatow

#fun #great #high #high school #most

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#even #humor #important #short #short stories