Stories Quotes - Page 39

Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Every woman has a story.

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

What seems most significant to me about our movement is that we have freed painting from the importance of the subject. I am at liberty to paint flowers and call them flowers, without their needing to tell a story.

Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes. Now that biochemists have opened the black boxes and seen what is inside, they know the Darwinian theory is just a story, not a scientific explanation.

Inspired by words you have to create images to tell the story, while it's much more difficult to find your own images with a film for inspiration, because someone has already done it for you.

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

You can only succeed. You cannot fail. Failure is impossible; it is an illusion. Nothing is a failure. Nothing. Everything moves the human story, and hence the process of evolution, forward. Everything advances you on your journey.

Personal stories are the emotional glue that connects your audience to your message.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

A story? No. No stories, never again.

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

But what else can I do, other than to plead with you like this? Other than to write down my story, our story, to show you that what you've done . . . to make you realize that what you did wasn't fair, wasn't right.

There's not just one trans story. There's not just one trans experience.