Selected Stories Quotes

#1. I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

Elisabeth Shue

#2. My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.

Larry Bishop

#3. Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Robert Hutchison

#4. Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

Akira Toriyama

#5. Even if this spring the dappled leaves should shelter our minds from the moon's pale echo we would still remember how once they were sheltered by our skulls only from the day's sun and the night's stars and never from what we feared and what we remembered

Dan Davin

#6. The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt,was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.

Dan Davin

#7. The first story I wrote was "Catface" which was later selected for The O. Henry Collection, so that gave me some confidence to try some more. Gathering these stories together was fun, but I realized when I read them that I have certain mental preoccupations and they keep recurring in my stories.

Arthur Bradford

#8. Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams

Dan Davin

#9. The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

Banksy

#10. People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we've lived; they're the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments.

Ted Chiang

#11. Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.

Bill Murray

#12. I guess, as a reporter, I always thought that my biggest strength was that I could get anybody to talk to me. I wasn't the best writer, but I could get people to talk to me.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#13. Horror fans are very passionate people, and they are very much into the 'Saw' thing. So they watch sometimes as carefully as the writers and producers do, in terms of the way the story plays out.

Tobin Bell

#14. There is one type of person who tends to have some trouble with nutrient timing, and that is the crazy person who has the motivation to wake up at 4am and train.

Anonymous

#15. The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. It was the sexual chemistry I wanted more of. It was electric. I'd forgotten what it was like to be with someone who excited you in every sense of the word, who thrilled and frightened you in equal measure.

Lucy Robinson

#17. The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution.

Christiane Northrup

#18. By using our international network, utilising templates and thinking ahead with pre-planned pages that contain carefully selected relevant news, we can deliver stories that other people just don't have. And that will release resources for the web.

Lionel Barber

#19. The things one had to do in life sometimes had nothing to do with what was fun or convenient.

Amy Tan

#20. We created Pure Flix to make uplifting and inspiring content on a consistent, ongoing basis, so audiences would truly have an alternative to what Hollywood puts out. Pure Flix produces faith and family films, so the audience is the entire family.

David A.R. White

#21. Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Tom Hiddleston