Story

Famous quotes containing the word story:

    “The child ... stands upon a place apart, a little spectator of the world, before whom men and women come and go, events fall out, years open their slow story and are noted or let go as his mood chances to serve them. The play touches him not. He but looks on, thinks his own thought, and turns away, not even expecting his cue to enter the plot and speak. He waits,—he knows not for what.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

    “A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.”
    —Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)