Stories Quotes - Page 3

If you don't know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it's kind of hard to put things together.

I believe that when we love someone, we respect them, and we listen to them; we feel that their voice matters. And- we let them dictate the terms of who they are and what their story is.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future

It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.

I don't blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don't know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.

Other people don't know what you've gone through. And everybody has a story that you probably don't know.

Scientists say that human beings are made of atoms, but a little bird told me that we are also made of stories

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.

When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.