Stories Quotes - Page 21

We are our choices. Build yourself a great story.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

Who could quarrel with Clark Gable? We got on well. Whenever anyone on the set was tired or depressed, it was Gable who cheered that person up. Then the newspapers began printing the story that Gable and I were not getting on. This was so ridiculous it served only as a joke. From the time on the standard greeting between Clark and myself became, 'How are you not getting on today?'

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story, and to start with, “secondly.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

I believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.