Stories Quotes - Page 104

Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense.

I'm at the beginning of it. I'm Elektra's last job before the story kicks off.

The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.

We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.

I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.

I'm more honest in my lyrics than I am in anything else. It's where I feel the most safe to express myself. I write about growing up, my family, Maddie and getting pregnant. If I've lived it, why wouldn't I talk about it? I guess that's been the coolest thing - realizing that it's OK to just be myself and really tell my story.

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.

As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.

The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.

Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy.

The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Actors are merely the medium through which a story happens.