I chose 'The Antique Ring' because it is a story about telling a story. Choosing the Poe story was more problematic because Poe's tales rarely employ dialogue.
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Related Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love ... REFAAT ALAREER Playing guitar is like telling a story, the more emotion you put into it the better the story. The d... STEVEN EVANS The easiest story to tell is the story of your life, in telling it you are at your best because you ... SOTONYE ANGA The story about a lot of successes, depend on who's telling the story. GARY WIGANOWSKY Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself. DEJAN STOJANOVIC It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself ... CHRIS KRAUS Bruce is a very compelling story. We're telling the story of a man who's here to tell a story. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child. AMANDA BURTON It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well... JENNIFER CONNELLY The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machi... JULIO CORTáZAR We chose her because it's a story we don't often hear anymore. Also, she is so upbeat, and she reall... MAXINE DURST But there's always a story behind the story. That's how the story never ends: Someone is always tell... ARI BERK & CAROLYN DUNN Coach is always telling us a story about the past teams. GARY ROBINSON The first law of story-telling. Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it. MRS. HUMPHREY WARD Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story. JACKIE EVANCHO Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them v... H. P. LOVECRAFT The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous ... MARK TWAIN I think that people read Harry Potter because it's a great story, not because they like reading book... EMERSON SPARTZ Instead of telling a story about how great your brand is, try telling a story that shows you complet... LEWIS HOWES Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this b... JANDY NELSON Jill spent three years learning Arabic because she cared so much about this story and covering it ri... ELLEN KNICKMEYER As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitat... JUSTIN BIENVENUE As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I... GAIL CARSON LEVINE We're telling more about not behaving as a spectator, ... More the point of the story is to get in a... BRAD PITT I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when the... DAVID TALBOT It is a story I never tire of telling, because to me it is the perfect coming together to science an... A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM one day I will tell you a story. A story that will make you ponder. A story that will make you wonde... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and... DANA DAVIS A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story.... AARON SORKIN I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling. MALCOLM GLADWELL All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind... DIANE SETTERFIELD If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even i... MARGARET ATWOOD Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got ther... TOM STOPPARD If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling. HUSSEIN CHALAYAN Telling a story about something you know nothing about is like starting a new job without the traini... JOSHUA HARTZELL I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal e... BRUCE DICKINSON The story of how you make a ring around a planet could be the same as the story of making rings arou... PAUL KALAS I chose you, Clara, and you chose me. End of story. SHELLY CRANE PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story? SEVERIN: The camera is telling the story. It's watchin... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful... JOHN CUSACK It would have been confined to the vice-president. By not telling anyone for 24 hours, it made it a ... MARLIN FITZWATER I suppose that I was a kind of consultant for taste. Is it good taste? Or bad taste? I had an attent... JOHN HENCH We use (narration) as he's just telling us a story. He could be in a bar somewhere telling the story... GREG GARCIA She has a passion for telling the story. KAREN LIST It simply tells a story about two rather unremarkable men and their tragedy. It doesn't wave a banne... DIANA OSSANA He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any ... DONALD MILLER When I was a kid, I loved history because history to me was a big story. ROY CONLI I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy... COURTNEY THORNE-SMITH For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story. REBECCA SKLOOT A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty... GEORGE LUCAS I think when people begin to tell their stories, everything changes, because not only are you legiti... EVE ENSLER The best way to teach people is by telling a story. KEN BLANCHARD I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't. WENDY DAVIS Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their ow... C.S. LEWIS For seldom shall she hear a tale
So said, so tender, yet so true. WILLIAM SHENSTONE I cannot tell how the truth may be;
I say the tale as 'twas said to me. SIR WALTER SCOTT A tale in everything. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH In after-dinner talk,
Across the walnuts and the wine. LORD ALFRED TENNYSON With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which
holdeth children from play, and old men ... SIR PHILIP SIDNEY (SYDNEY) Out of their saddles into the dirt--and thereby hangs a tale. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His eye begets occasion for his wit;
For every object that the one doth catch
The other turns ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose light... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An' all us other children, when the supper things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an' has ... JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY But that's another story. RUDYARD KIPLING Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and the story s told of
yourself.
[Lat., Quid rides?]
... HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS) And what so tedious as a twice-told tale. HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") I hate
To tell again a tale once fully told. HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Soft as some song divine, thy story flows. HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") When thou dost tell another's jest, therein
Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need;
Pick o... GEORGE HERBERT In vain would I seek to discover
Why sad and mournful am I,
My thoughts without ceasing brood ... HEINRICH HEINE This story will never go down. HENRY FIELDING In this spacious isle I think there is not one
But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John... MICHAEL DRAYTON A story, in which native humour reigns,
Is often useful, always entertains;
A graver fact, enl... WILLIAM COWPER A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) At this point therefore let us begin our narrative, without
adding any more to what has already bee... BIBLE If your worldview starts with a problematic origin story, everything else is going to be infected. WILLIAM DEMBSKI In the end their appeal is not necessarily the history, but the quality of the story-telling, and a ... BERNARD CORNWELL A myth is a story that is "more than true." Many stories are true because one person, somewhere, at ... LISA SEGER They said the action was cool and the effects were cool. But they also said the reason they chose it... GREGG BISHOP Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER We've begun a dialogue with our customers about our services, and chose two characters everyone can ... ANITA BIZZOTTO Without a past you can't have a future. MICHAEL ENDE Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember ... MICHAEL ENDE I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they&... BRAD PITT When you hear a person give a presentation about a stock, he's telling you a story, ... What fascina... FRANK GANNON The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has... CARLISLE FLOYD He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts ... BARRY RITHOLTZ Everything you’re telling me was just a story, and now it’s real. KATHY BRYSON This year we chose Romeo and Juliet, which we think fits us the best because it's a great love story... MELISSA GREGORY I honestly don't feel that this story has been sugar-coated, ... Obviously you're telling the story ... SHAWN ASHMORE I honestly don't feel that this story has been sugar-coated. Obviously you're telling the story of a... SHAWN ASHMORE 'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environm... BEN BROWDER Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of reve... NICK WECHSLER Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in... MARCO TEMPEST Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. WILLIAM BRIDGES Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It'... WENDY DAVIS
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[Fr., Mediocre et rampant, et l'on arrive ... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which
sticks.
[Fr., Calumniez, calumniez; ... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, n... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS It is not necessary to retain facts that we may reason concerning
them.
[Fr., Il n'est pas necess... PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
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[Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.] PIERRE AUGUSTE CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS What silly people wits are!
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The several sects perform the office of a Censor ... THOMAS JEFFERSON So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa... THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. THOMAS JEFFERSON We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. THOMAS JEFFERSON When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro... THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. THOMAS JEFFERSON For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be... THOMAS JEFFERSON If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a... THOMAS JEFFERSON If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav... THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ... THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a... THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o... THOMAS JEFFERSON I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results... THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. THOMAS JEFFERSON It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who... THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor... THOMAS JEFFERSON