Stories Quotes - Page 49

Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.

The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

To be human is to be in a story.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very probably right; if you are pointing out the only thing a story is about you are very probably wrong - even if you're the author.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

I'm always interested in telling stories that have a message because I really do believe that film is so powerful.

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.

I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them