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Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

Good marketers tell a story.

Good filmmakers actually are people who have lived life, who have something to say, who have stories to tell. People who fall, perhaps make a bad film, pick themselves up and go on to make another one. What strength people exhibit.

Good stories flow like honey but bad stories stick in the craw [gullet]. What is a bad story? It's a story that cannot be absorbed in the first time of reading. It's a story that leaves questions unanswered.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

Good stories are constructed, not found.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.

Graves they say are warm'd by glory; Foolish words and empty story.

Gravity”: “It’s the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day.

Great design should tell a story.

Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born.

Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world.

Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of vital information removed from but evoked by a communication in such a way as to cause a kind of explosion of associative connections within the recipient.

Great stories agree with our worldview. The best stories don't teach people anything new. Instead the best stories agree with what the audience already believes and makes the members of the audience feel smart and secure when reminded how right they were in the thirst place.

Great stories happen to those who can tell them.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time I lived happily ever after.

Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.

Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

Hannakins: I know you guys are living out your own private Romeo and Juliet love story, but remember: Both of them die in Act V. -A

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

[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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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 )