Stories Quotes

...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

All cat stories start with the statement: 'My mother, who was the first cat, told me this, ' and I lay with Jonas listening to his stories.

Stories choose us, not the other way around.

The stories we are destined to tell find us.

When you tell your story, and I listen, we both gain.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

Knowing how to dream is more important than the story, because the story tells itself.

Are infinite possibilities a storyteller's worst enemy or best friend? I'd say a bit of both really and one must be grateful for this paradox.

I hide away in my room to seeJust what stories will come to me.

I loved those eyes, even though they never saw my pain, I loved those ears, even though they heard my stories

I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.

That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around.

Sometimes we tell our stories and sometimes our stories tell us.

Good stories are like those noble wild animals that make their home in hidden spots, and you must often settle down at the entrance of the caves and woods and lie in wait for them a long time.

If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it.

They say there are three kinds of people in the world: those who listen to stories, those who tell them, and those who make them.

Bedtime storiesEventide RhapsodiesAnthologies of MemoryPlease enter cautiously and feel free to open what is closed

Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore...

Once you tell somebody a story, you are all in the same world and you can all speak to each other about the same things and understand the same things.

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.

Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.

You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for yours too...

Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.

There is no story that is not true, " said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

One spring patio is for rodeosniggled with iodine figures, weavedtapestries inside vast Tuileries.But that reminds me, how exactlydo words form brittle histories

Any story worth telling has been embellished a little bit, Skyco, but the best stories are born from an honest seed that simply grows a little in the retelling of it.

She is a figure of legend and fairy tale, one to be taken seriously, or she might knock you off your feet with a quick whirl of the staff she carries everywhere.

Captain Reed eyed him thoughtfully. "I built my whole life around the stories they about me. You know what I learned?"Archer shook his head."What you do makes you who you are....

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

I can't imagine a life without a story.

But we don’t run on facts. We run on stories about things. About people.

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.

We need stories in order to understand ourselves, for good or bad, to be inspired or horrified, it's how we cope with being human and how we decide what type of person we will become.

I am a huge believer in revelations and fun twists.

One has to be careful, whenever one tells a story about a great injustice. We are a species that loves narrative, but has been taught not to trust an individual speaker.

¨Everything is ordinary to us until we get know its history. We start to see things differently when we do get a glimpse of its past¨

Without stories, we are incomplete.

Secrets, my mother told me once, are just stories turned inside out.

Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end.

There are gods and there are true knights too. All the stories can't be lies.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms!

Stories require faith, not facts.

Did you know that writing stories down kills them?Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things.

Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.

Some people just want to be part of the story, even if it’s a story that’s completely fabricated.

All stories are connected. In the end everything is connected.

And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.

Welcome, welcomePlease feel welcomedWelcome, oh welcomeWe are pleased to have you here.

Sometimes we are able to better understand a theory or concept through a story… such stories teach you, enlighten you, and entertain you at the same time.