Stories Quotes

You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

'Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

You have to pick the stories that you want to be involved with and the end game is you'd like to be a part of a hit. But I think your moral obligation is to follow your own heart.

It's the same story with a few crucial additions; the most important one is you.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

We need to make our faith our very own love story.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

Everybody has their story to tell.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

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

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

What do we want from each other after we have told our stories

Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.

We loved one another, man. I mean all those stories about the rift ... there was no question of a rift between Charlie Parker and me.

I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

During a recent panel on the numerous failures of American journalism, I proposed that almost all stories about government should begin: “Look out! They're about to smack you around again!

I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by the stories we learn to live in.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

Don't ask your readers to admire your words when you want them to believe your story.