Stories Quotes - Page 20

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

I write a story in my head. I see the story like a movie.

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws them all into its comprehensive fullness. Who can learn what this means and remain calm?

When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.