Stories Quotes - Page 50

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

And Nedley started saying,'Shut Up!Quit that! And i knew it really meant something to him. So I asked for his help,"Mark said. "Don't tell the story like that," Nedley laughed. "What he said was 'Quit pretendin you're a bad guy I need your help, and I need it now!

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure.

There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color.

I see a great lack of stories around. I bought six literary magazines and looked through them to see what people were doing. There wasn't a story in them. They were all about how poetic the feelings of the author were.

We have to make a disciplined effort to find out what our governments are doing in these various parts of the world and what is actually happening. We have to learn to listen to each other's stories. Something we are not very good at.

We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

People love dogs. You can never go wrong adding a dog to the story.

If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

Companies thrive on the basis of the stories they tell.

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.

Every day is a new opportunity to make your life a story worth telling.

Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.

The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords.