The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987) Votes: 3
I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth. Votes: 2
History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story. Votes: 2
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment. Votes: 2
You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale. -Peeta Mellark Votes: 2
It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present. Votes: 2
We humans are different - our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them, our recollections in their retelling. Votes: 2
The history of Israel and Judaism is the unfolding of the meaning of this story. It's retelling is never finished and will not be until the Kingdom. Votes: 2
From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless. Votes: 2
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. Votes: 2
Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. Votes: 2
Roecker sure is a romantic about certain things, like art and music, though you might not know it from watching Live Freaky! Die Freaky!, his claymation musical retelling of the Helter Skelter Charlie Manson saga. Votes: 2
If we weren't doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was. I'm not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but it's a way we're retelling. That's what we do as human beings. We retell our favorite stories. Votes: 2
I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I think it's just taking you out of everyday life, and everyone loves a good fairy tale. Votes: 2
Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush. Votes: 2
Literature offers us all, writers and readers, the best method of discovering and retelling the changing story of ourselves. The story is both journey and surprise. And as everyone knows, even the past is altered, depending on, not the facts, but the interpretation. Votes: 2
I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. Votes: 2
London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone. Votes: 2
As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to! Votes: 2
Our stories are not new; yet, in the retelling we are reborn as heroes. Votes: 1
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. Votes: 0
["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story. Votes: 0
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling. Votes: 0
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel. Votes: 0
Stories of Fantasy are nothing more than the retelling of our own triumphs and sad, sad tragedies ... Tod LangleyI have that painted on my office wall and love to stare at it. Votes: 0