#tories

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#another #anything #because #chose #courses

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#encourage #fine #long #people #stories

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#been #big #came #circuit #france

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#element #guys #human #human element #i

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#certainly #game #go #how #just

Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure. ↗

— Greg Bear

#beautiful #because #buried #childhood #childhood memories

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#even #football #france #hear #holland

You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#get #know #lost #love #love stories

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#allowed #back #childhood #fact #frogs