...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back… — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
We used to go to movies to see stories about ourselves. It would transport us to new worlds and we'd see aspects… — Travis Knight Copy Share Image
Arnold Schwarzenegger is in some trouble. Today, the Los Angeles Times broke a story that quoted six women who claimed that Arnold… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe,… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
I love science fiction but I don't like fantastic [cinema]. For example, if you have a magical ring and you can explode… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
The false reporting by the media, the false, horrible, fake reporting makes it much harder to make a deal with Russia, and… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
I like to write stories where young people have a strong feeling about something being fair or unfair, right or wrong, cruel… — Morris Gleitzman Copy Share Image
Love can make you turn on yourself, and it can do harmful things to you. It's a deep lesson in human psychology,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I want to create this magical moment when a kid is sitting on a parent's lap and they're reading a story together… — Maria Rodale Copy Share Image
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
At Marvel, I was lucky enough to work with really talented people, but I always had this nagging thought: 'One day I'll… — David Mazzucchelli Copy Share Image
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
Earlier this week - this is crazy - the country's first marijuana cafe opened up, which not only sells medical marijuana, but… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
You do not preach and encourage hatred for the Negro and hope to restrict it to that field. It is an old,… — Ralph McGill Copy Share Image
This country cannot be the country we want it to be if its story is told by only one group of citizens.… — Robert C. Maynard Copy Share Image
My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this… — Albert Finney Copy Share Image
We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 - my son started when he… — Diandra Asbaty Copy Share Image
I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite -… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have heard so many stories of contractors, and I've met some, too, who worked for Donald Trump, produced the goods and… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? Ask me ...… — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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