Stories Quotes - Page 16

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.

Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you’re in the middle of it

In the end, we'll all become stories.

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

Every great story deserves a great ending

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.

When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.