Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest… — Alan Garner Copy Share Image
Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie,… — Ike Barinholtz Copy Share Image
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
I do need to find inner tranquillity and get into a "zone" before I switch on the computer to work on a… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous… — Casey Kasem Copy Share Image
Oh, all stories are the same, aren't they? Men and women fall in love or out of love. People are born; people… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities… — James Daly Copy Share Image
I first studied to be a preacher, but decided that I was too prone to tell big stories. Then I studied Blackstone… — Isaac Cline Copy Share Image
Well, you know, going into any project, especially with a fan base as vocal and passionate as something as "Star Wars," you… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
I think it's just as viable a way of telling a story as anything else but for right now we like playing… — Todd Farmer Copy Share Image
“Some species of trees spread root systems underground that interconnect the individual trunks and weave the individual trees into a more stable… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that… — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
I was raised by my grandmother. She had a very difficult time, raised all her kids, my father and everybody. Listening to… — Rajashree Choudhury Copy Share Image
My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young… — Jonny Weston Copy Share Image
“Why do bad things happen to good people?' 'Because it makes a good story.” — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories. — Sheila Nevins Copy Share Image
What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again! — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
We've been watching and listening to the same stories since the beginning of time - and we love them. — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
“We need to interrupt any stories that are not in alignment with what we're doing.” — Elena Aguilar Copy Share Image
The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to… — Jenni Rivera Copy Share Image
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression. — Clara Hughes Copy Share Image
I tell my story, not because its unique, but because its not, it is the story of many girls — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
