Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories. — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
When I was in my early twenties, my mom started repeating things, asking the same questions, telling the same stories. It was… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together,… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever,… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Marketing is no longer about the stuff that you male, but about the stories you tell. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I had an eye-opening experience in Baghdad at the end of 2004 and I thought that the story of these guys who… — Mark Boal Copy Share Image
Israel is a tremendous success story. When I arrived, there were 600,000 Jews living here. Today there are close to 6 million.… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000… — Vic Morrow Copy Share Image
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
We are trying to communicate that which lies in our deepest heart, which has no words, which can only be hinted at… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work.… — Patricia Rozema Copy Share Image
To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
I'm a memoir writer. I try to understand the world by taking experiences I have and making them into a story, whether… — Staceyann Chin Copy Share Image
All these questions about do you want to be king? It's not a question of wanting to be, it's something I was… — Prince William Copy Share Image
I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They’ve never seen a battle, they’ve never seen a man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along,… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers. — Kate Capshaw Copy Share Image
I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As Africans Americans we often think about the tragic stories associated with our lineage, but there are a lot of triumphs. Traveling… — Laz Alonso Copy Share Image
I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I have eaten too many types of cuisines and food. For me, every dish has their own taste and story. I can't… — Rinrin Marinka Copy Share Image
This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
![“I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that…” quote by Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d7/barack-obama-17_community_i-remember-reading-studs-terkel-s-workin_3056170.jpg)
