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John say's it's James who started first, James tells the story in reverse. I drag my belt from off me waist, you should have heard dem screaming round de place.

Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

Journalists don't retire, writers don't retire. I'm still hoping for that other big story. There's always one just around the corner.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene

Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.

Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.

Just use the same quotes. It's the same story.

Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal.

Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

Kelly Link is inimitable. Her stories are like nothing else, dark yet sparkling with her unique brand of fairy dust. This is the most marvelous kind of trouble to get in.

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Language is so inherent to humanity, so necessary for even basic thinking, that stories and poetry are available to anyone who can process language.

landscape, that vast still life, invites description, not narration. It is lyric. It has no story: it is the beloved, and asks only to be contemplated.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

Language, journalism, food, sex. All is politics. Even innocent love stories are politics. ... There is no such thing as neutrality.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Let's finish with Guccifer. My communication with him is now entirely public. It is benign.Secondarily, the timing of my communication is after, not before, I write a story for Breitbart regarding the hacking. And I never defend him from not being a Russian agent in that piece.

Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person.

Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story.

Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.

Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Life is like sex, baby - the more you put in, the more you get out. End of story.

Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the creator of your life. You are the writer of your life story. You are the director of your life movie. You decide what your life will be – by what you give out.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

life is a story and god is author.life is absurd.I think so.