"One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced a new product, he told a story, exzlaining how a product would change the world as we know it. He turned Apple into a story whose challenges and adventures you want to hear about."

“Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with something to do, to achieve, to learn, and to change.”

Source : Larry Brooks (2011). “Story Engineering”, p.77, Writer's Digest Books

“Jesus picked up the conversation. "As the crowning glory of creation, you were made in Our image, unencumbered by structure and free to simply 'be' in relationship with Me and one another. If you had trully learned to regard one another's concerns as significant as your own, there would be no need for hierarchy.”

“Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

“Venus yields to caresses, not to compulsion.”

“Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.”

Source : Angelus Silesius, Frederick Franck (2005). “Messenger of the Heart: The Book of Angelus Silesius with Observations by the Ancient Zen Masters”, p.39, World Wisdom, Inc

“Health and education are always issues.”

“The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.”

“One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.”