Stories Quotes
I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
...not stories, but histories. For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always.
I must have been chosen because I know it all from beginning to end. I am certainly not the story itself. I am only the grass that tattles on the wind.
Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.
There's always more to the story, Catriona, " She replied. "That's the wonderful thing about stories.
God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?
Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?
There's more to stories than it seems at first looking, " she said. "Two sides to most stories. Folks better be thinking about that for once.
It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it. The story-teller does but provide him with the stimuli.
Maybe like the never-ending stories within stories of the One Thousand and One Nights, life is dream within dream all the way through?
We all have our own stories. The story you tell about yourself, even if you only tell it to yourself, drives your actions and has a significant impact on your focus.
I have stories. But stories are not facts.''I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the time they're better than facts.
Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.
The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence.
He. Does there have to be a he? It seems weak and unoriginal doesn’t it, for stories told by girls to always have a he?
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them.
Because there is a need to hear one story and to tell another.
People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.
...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...
This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should, ” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.
We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...
Most human beings come into the world and leave it with nothing to show they ever lived.
Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters.
Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.
Whatever you focus on expands.
He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!
Just focus on me, ” I whispered to her, nipping her earlobe. “Nothing matters here but us. The way you feel. The way I feel. The way we feel together.
When someone tells you a piece of their life, they’re giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.
It's the best thing in the world to save a life, no matter whose it is.
If she would just let herself go I would be there to catch her if she fell but she wasn't ready to take that step yet."Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions
I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the previous day.
You can take the barbarian out of the tavern, but he can take the blood out of your body.
It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)
Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.
She wasn't entirely sure how she felt, All she knew was that he entered her world And she felt more alive than she had before, secretly wishing he was feeling the same.