Story

Famous quotes containing the word story:

    “When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That’s the story of my private life.”
    —Gloria Swanson (1897–1983)

    “The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)