quotes about Story People

“Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.”

Source : James A. Michener (2014). “The Drifters: A Novel”, p.528, Dial Press

“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”

Source : Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.304

“I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much”

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”

“African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.”

“I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.”

“The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.”

“Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.”

Source : Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.55, UNM Press

“It's smart to be thrifty.”

Source : Bernice Fitz-Gibbon (1967). “Macy's, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising”

“When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?”

Source : "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.