Stories Quotes - Page 85

A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

We want to hear the story first and let the meaning unfold, rather than to be present with expectations of a certain significance into which all behavior is then fitted.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

If you like the story then don't hold back in telling me about it, and if you don't then please keep your opinions to yourself!

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

To tell my story, to touch lives.

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood orseason of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.

I remember that - you know, I didnt receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.