Stories Quotes

I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

Olduvai Gorge gives us one of the most remarkable stories of the past-the last chapter of the Earth's history, starting at the present day, right away back 2 million years.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30 years in the public schools. She's definitely got some war stories.

An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy.

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story.

The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.

I think everybody wants to connect. There is nothing worse than feeling disconnected. And stories that really move people and make people care are the ones where they feel some sort of connection.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

Perserverance. . .that's been the story of my family.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

It is important to tell good stories. You can tell stories even if they are not huge, epic, and wonderful. You can still take the responsibility for being a scribe of your tribe.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

The Bible is not a script for a funeral service, but it is the record of God always bringing life where we expected to find death. Everywhere it is the story of resurrection.

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth.

Everything in a story should be credible.

Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Writing stories has given me the power to change things I could not change as a child. I can make boys into doctors. I can make fathers stop drinking. I can make mothers stay.

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

So much of me is made of what I learned from you; you'll be with me like a handprint on my heart and now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine by being my friend

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies.

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.

I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story.

Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

A story? No. No stories, never again.

Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going. They're like bread; you need to hear and tell them everyday.

I wish I had some interesting stories about living in L.A., but mostly I just do my work and then go home.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.