Stories Quotes · Page 101

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

— Rob Bell

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

— Chris Martin

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

— Thomas King

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

— Susan Fletcher

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

— Adriana Trigiani

The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked…

— ZZ Packer

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

— Terence McKenna

I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

— Lauren Myracle

I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long.…

— J. Cole

People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,…

— Philip Pullman

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories…

— Ian Hislop

First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the…

— Tom Robbins

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your…

— Oprah Winfrey

By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not…

— Walter Murch

The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or…

— Gloria Steinem

Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story…

— Herman Cain

One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early…

— Noam Chomsky

I'm sure everyone's got their back story. I don't come from a place of where I was tortured and needed to let…

— Adam Sandler

I'm so blessed to be able to work with some of the best writers out there, and it's kind of like college…

— Jamie Lynn Spears

I'm tempted to say, 'Writing treatments is like designing a film by hiring six million monkeys to tear out pages of an…

— Terry Rossio

You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your…

— Gustave Flaubert

What I like about narrative in general is when there is some incongruity between the form and content. Let's say, mixing up…

— Kelly Link

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to…

— Juliet Marillier

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some…

— Anne Lamott

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

— Brian Swimme

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

— Rebecca Goldstein

In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

— Sue Monk Kidd

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

— Ivan Illich

I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.

— Melina Marchetta

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

— John Irving

I love stories about self-love and finding your identity and your people.

— Kate Herron

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

— Charles de Lint

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the…

— Rumer Godden

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been…

— C. S. Lewis

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my…

— Byron Katie

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.

— Robert G. Allen

“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.”

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

— Howard Gordon

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

— Anonymous