Stories Quotes
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To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
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the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.
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The public still repeats, time after time, the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.
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Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to tell stories, but I never had the patience to sit down at a typewriter and write short stories or anything like that. I started writing songs as a way of communicating ideas the best way I could.
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I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.
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It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
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I am not sure how much Dudley will feature just because of the grand scale of the film and the fact that there are so many stories and characters to tie up. I haven't seen the film yet but I think it will be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it was nice just to round it off and give it some closure.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
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If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
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I just did a dramatic love story. Whether it's a cultural phenomenon is not for me to say.
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There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
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I remember when I was doing Mermaids 1990, I was 16 and they gave me a B12 shot once. My parents weren't there, and when they did come, they freaked out. They were terrified, because of the Judy Garland stories. I know it's just vitamin B, but it did give you a boost.
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We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.
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Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.
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Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that its hard to know what really happened. Theres still so much to know.
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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me
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My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.
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Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.
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As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan – Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.
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Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest. I've never met The Rock though.
