Stories Quotes
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I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.
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Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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I have a boyfriend who knows how to settle me. He puts his hand on my chest and tells me boring stories. On one of our first nights together I woke up apologizing for my snoring and he pulled out two earplugs he had worn to bed so he could hear what I was saying.
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Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I think if a story has a message it should be incidental and accidental, otherwise it leans too close to indoctrination.
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It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.
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Be the hero of your own life story.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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One of the stories that inspires me is that it is documented that a honey badger killed a lion in a one-on-one.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I love twins stories.
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I love Michelle Williams. I think she's extraordinary. I was such a fan of 'Blue Valentine,' and I heard stories about how Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams worked on that. They lived together for a period of time as rehearsal. From nine in the morning to five at night, living in a space together. The work is really awe-inspiring.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.
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Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.
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Love stories should be relatable.
