Story Quotes
But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.
Bob Gaudio
The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
Mahatma Gandhi
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
Susan Griffin
O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the lids that crave thy visits bland, Thou kind, thou comforting one. For I have seen his face, as I desired, And all my story is done. O, I am tired.
Jean Ingelow
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
Oscar Wilde
The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
Evan Esar
You did it because you wanted to sell a story.
Thomas Mesereau
You have such a sacred responsibility when you touch John Lewis's story, when you touch the story of the movement. You don't want to leave anything out, but you want to tell a good story so the people will read it and they're engaged and they don't fall apart with extraneous details.
Andrew Aydin
My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
Brian Henson
Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.
Keanu Reeves
Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all."
James Keller
I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
Judith Leiber
You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
Carolyn See
Story is king. Everything else is a slave to the story.
Casey Neistat
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.
Brian Swimme
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
Anne Carson
All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.
Karen Lord
Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
Brian Swimme
