Quotes About One Side Of The Story

#1. Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was the conquerers' side, the side of the French Jesuit missionaries that came to live in what is now Ontario.

Joseph Boyden

#2. If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Chinua Achebe

#3. If you listen to only one side of the story, you are simply a coward.

Ben Tolosa

#4. Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.

Brad Watson

#5. a leading copyright commentator concludes - with good reason - that if Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet were protected by copyright today, the Broadway musical West Side Story might well be found to infringe.

Neil Weinstock Netanel

#6. Sometimes when I need to comfort myself (all the time) I think about your lisp and it creates a wombskin around my brain full of barbituratesque nectar, the side effects of which include a horny surge in my second chakra and pussy, and then severe withdrawal: a love story.

Melissa Broder

#7. West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

Vincente Minnelli

#8. I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

Sara Paxton

#9. Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

Susan Griffin

#10. I actually love 'West Side Story.' I think it's an amazing film to watch.

Martin Donovan

#11. I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Leo Tolstoy

#12. I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end.

John Hurt

#13. Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules.

Al Sharpton

#14. I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.

Heather Graham

#15. I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

Columbus Short

#16. I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.

Catherynne M Valente

#17. I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

Bob Kane

#18. I wonder if there is a dark side to every great love story. With great love comes great hurt. I wonder if it is inevitable.

Sarah Jio

#19. With the e-reader, the whole book was on
the same virtual page. One could not feel the depth of the pages on the left side increase as those of the right side diminished, the
gradual progression from beginning to middle to end, the sense of where one stood in the journey of the story.

Daniel Seltzer

#20. Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your character will tell your side without any words spoken. Do your best to vibrate high even in the midst of a shit storm.

Sanjo Jendayi

#21. 'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.

Jonathan Maberry

#22. I'm not saying we had a playroom, but I'm not shocked by [the sex in the book]. It's essential to tell the story. I can't believe films that don't invoke a sexual side of it. So it works for me.

Jamie Dornan

#23. The more you've struggled to heal and love yourself, the more inspiring your story will be to others when you come out the other side full of triumph, awareness, and honour. Don't give up. Your struggle today is the source of your wisdom tomorrow.

Vironika Tugaleva

#24. I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

Adam Sandler

#25. You don't really want my side of the story. You don't want to understand me, know me, to crawl inside of my head. You don't want to feel the things I've felt. You just want to know that one thing: why.
Fine. Here's why: Her. I did it all for her.

Jess Walter

#26. 'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.

Russ Tamblyn

#27. No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

Priscilla Presley

#28. Landowner of those parts. An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine - Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story stone houses with red-tile roofs. For centuries, the paesani of Roseto

Malcolm Gladwell

#29. There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

Joe Sacco

#30. Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#31. The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.

G. Campbell Morgan

#32. On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.

Jim Rash

#33. If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.

Rod Stewart

#34. concurrent series that follows alongside this one, involving Elise and Lucent's side of the story: His Absolute Assignment His Absolute Betrayal His Absolute

Cerys Du Lys

#35. There are two sides to every story, as if that explains and justifies everything! You know what I say when someone tells me that? I say well of course there are two sides to every story, and one side is WRONG!

Nikki Sex

#36. If there's no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

Heidi W. Durrow

#37. I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

Michael Eklund

#38. When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

George Washington

#39. For a lot of folks who get sober, the process of getting and staying sober becomes their higher power, and it becomes a religion that sort of consumes a whole lot of them. I just don't think that that's necessary. I think that that can be a side note rather than the story of your life.

Jason Isbell

#40. Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

John Lahr

#41. The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

Greta Garbo

#42. We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Anatole France

#43. Every story has two sides. So far, we've only heard one. The stupid side." LIFE

Alexander McCall Smith

#44. My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

Gordon Smith

#45. There are generally at least three sides to any story, though."
"Three?"
"One side, the other side, and the truth.

Garon Whited

#46. You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

John Mulaney

#47. Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.

Traci Lea LaRussa

#48. So I simply said one of the great trite truths: There is generally more than one side to a story.

Roger Zelazny

#49. I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun.

Sarah Sutton

#50. The old age old story of Yin & Yang ... Every positive side has a negative side too. Which are you?

Timothy Pina

#51. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.

John O'Hara

#52. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.

Adriana Locke

#53. Beth was laughing at his story when Bobby ran up to her. She lifted her plate out of harm's way and smiled at Kevin over his nephew's head as the boy put a hand on either side of her waist. "Hey, cuz!" Bobby yelled at her stomach. "What does a snowman eat for breakfast? Snowflakes!

Shannon Stacey

#54. My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.

Hugh Panaro

#55. I'm a storyteller - that's my chamber, that's my box. I'm always tryin' to give you the best story from our side of the table that you could really relate to quick. I understand where I wanna be at, but sometimes the production takes me where I need to go.

Raekwon

#56. We have no need for the past. All we need are the present and the future. - Ciel Phantomhive

Yana Toboso

#57. If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.

Damien Chazelle

#58. A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

Peter Kuznick

#59. Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.

Sam Worthington

#60. When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

Walter Isaacson

#61. Leave No Trace (bad language)
Sometimes she will speak of him as present, sometimes as past, and sometimes as always. That is how it should be. No one needs rescuing from her own story of the truth and no one needs to side step her history. p270

Hannah Nyala

#62. The thing you gotta get is, a sister's any sister at all, she stands by her sisters side or takes her back no matter how she feels about her sisters man or the shit that goes down between her sister and her man.

Kristen Ashely

#63. My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.

Olivia Cooke

#64. For a long time, I was portrayed as the Osama bin Laden of the Internet, and I really wanted to be able to tell my side of the story. I wanted to be able to explain exactly what I did and what I didn't do to people who thought they knew me.

Kevin Mitnick

#65. I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

Suzanne Shaw

#66. To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

Brennan Manning

#67. A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#68. I mean I have a project that I have been wanting to make for quite a while now; and basically, it's a story of my parents growing up in the Lower East Side.

Martin Scorsese