“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it” — Jean Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story. — Om Puri Copy Share Image
I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will. — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
“The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation” — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I'll picture Rat Kiley face, his grief, and I'll think, You dumb cooze. Because she wasn't listening. It wasn't a war story.… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
The form is always integral to the expression of the theme or to the sheer telling of the story, and sometimes the… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an… — Amy Smart Copy Share Image
As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq,… — Nancy Grace Copy Share Image
“Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
It's all still about having a good story. You have to have a good story as your anchor, as your main focus.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it. — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front… — Mike Gorman Copy Share Image
You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
“There are a lot of sad stories. It seems like everybody has one to tell.” — Edward Bloor Copy Share Image
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard. — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid. — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story. — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years. — Michael McKean Copy Share Image
“Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to” — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through. — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them.… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told. — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image