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Harold and Maude' was a seminal movie for me because it's not only a beautiful love story, but it's also about the moment when misfits find each other.

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?

Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it.

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

Have endless patterns and repetitions accompanying your thoughtlessness, as if to say let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and end, with its transcendent end, let go, we are the poem, we have come miles of life, we have survived this far to tell you, go on, go on.

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course that he had left - or, rather, the true course he had obscurely been seeking all this time. (Last line of the story The Adventure of a Photographer )

Having to call your customer service department is like falling off a six story building.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.

Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.

Health care is at the beginning of a dialogue with the world... as health care providers, we have to ask ourselves this question: What stories are we not hearing?

Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact.

Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

he beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful characters we haven't even begun to introduce - it's a world that is infinitely expandable.

He [Donald Trump] is got no ethics when it comes to business and can they turn this story line, talk to his white working class base and say, he`s hired illegal immigrants. He doesn`t look out for you. He`s taking your kids money at Trump University and he is being accused of fraud.

He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon

He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll save him, Meggie!" he wispered in her ear. "I'll bring Dustfinger back. This story will have a happy ending.I swear!

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

He knew he couldn't tell stories, that he always included extraneous details & tangents that interested only him.

He knew one thing for sure, though. Whatever happened, Matt would have some handy excuse. He'd make up some story or change an old one, find some dumb quote to explain it all.

Help shape the stories that people are telling about you.

He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money.

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Here is why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never deflect the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. ...I beg of you, pretend you are a dog like me and LISTEN to other people rather than steal their stories.

Her [ Onata April] great talent as an actress is that she has the ability to understand and listen to the scenario and what the story is, and then she can pretend and live that.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

hermes has threatened me with slow mail. lousy Internet service and a horrible stock market if i publish this story. I hope he is just bluffing.

her stories make you believe in the power of love

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

Hills tell old stories.  Cliffs are poets with harps.

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

Hillary [Clinton] doesn't have a fascinating story to get behind. She doesn't fascinating story to tell. The only thing about Hillary is, you know, "first female president.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard work of selecting and shaping a readable story.

Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.

History is a story of violence at work. It all comes down to the old saw that, however much you can gain with a kind word, you can gain more with a kind word and a gun.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

History breaks down into images, not into stories.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.