The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the… — Dewi Morgan Copy Share Image
Remember the guy in the 80s walking around with a boombox on his shoulder? Why'd he do that? Because it told a… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
“It is a law of the story-teller's art that he does not tell a story. It is the listener who tells it.… — Melville Davisson Post Copy Share Image
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child,… — Khaled Hosseini 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
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The press still thinks [global warming] is controversial. So they find the 1% of the scientists and put them up as if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“The genuflection toward 'fairness' is a familiar newsroom piety, in practice the excuse for a good deal of autopilot reporting and lazy… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The stories circulating that Kanye West's laptop has been stolen are completely false. His laptop has never been out of his possession.… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I was hoping for. Some small praise, I guess. A bit of encouragement. I didn't get it. Miss… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
We create an image of happiness and success and then we are beholden to it. We tell ourselves stories and sometimes these… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Over and over again, stories in women's magazines insist that women can know fulfillment only at the moment of giving birth to… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid… — Ellen Kushner Copy Share Image
I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration… — Jerry Nachman Copy Share Image
I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even… — Don Hewitt Copy Share Image
In terms of what's going to actually happen to me in the story, down towards the end of the season, I'm dying… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always the jokester. I was telling stories at dinner and trying to make people laugh. I guess… — Wyck Godfrey Copy Share Image
Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say… — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story,… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
New content online no longer requires new stories or information, just new ways of linking things to other things. Or as the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
My name is Daniel, and this is the first volume of my life story, which, hopefully, will be a very long and… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I have often walked down this street before but the pavement never held my star before... all at once I'm three stories… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I just share my story in hopes that some people out there who have gone through different circumstances might be encouraged and… — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to… — F. Gary Gray Copy Share Image
“Just stories? Stories can build up an empire, or strike down a people. You can spell the most powerful spell, ease a… — Tobias S. Buckell Copy Share Image
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings.… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image