Storying Quotes

#1. You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.

Aidan Chambers

#2. If you are burned, you are naturally anxious to see what your face looks like as soon as they take the bandages off. In my case, it was my voice that was my main concern.

Jose Carreras

#3. Creativity isn't an occupation, it's a preoccupation.

Gordon Torr

#4. The factories were heavily bombed, but practically the construction work had been redone very quickly.

Gianni Agnelli

#5. Being tough means looking straight at something ugly, and saying, "That's ugly; I'll have to find a way to deal with it." And doing so.

Robert B. Parker

#6. She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

Jack Kerouac

#7. First, I'm not pestering you. I'm trying to make it clear that I want to fuck you into oblivion. Second, there is no other woman that I'm interested in. Clear enough for you?

Sawyer Bennett

#8. There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

Mary Augusta Ward

#10. Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

Oprah Winfrey