Telling stories Quotes · Page 3

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

— Jonathan Gottschall

I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Slick Rick has always been one of those guys real good at telling stories.

— Chamillionaire

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

— Andy Muschietti

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

I like to be fulfilled in telling stories and in creating, but I'm just a curious person.

— Jay Ellis

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

— David Alan Basche

I choose not to be in front of the camera. Sometimes I do get offered parts, but I really like just making…

— Bobcat Goldthwait

“Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.”

— Don Roff

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

— Kenneth Goldsmith

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing.…

— Art Donovan

I think that one of the things that drives me in telling stories, and art in general, is finding the beautiful in…

— James Gunn

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a…

— Peter Stormare

There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people…

— Stellan Skarsgard

In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim…

— Peg O'Connor

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition…

— Ishmael Beah

I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and…

— Pedro Almodovar

I have always had such sincere love for truth, that I have often begun by telling stories for the purpose of getting…

— Giacomo Casanova

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others.…

— Tim O'Brien

I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal…

— John Francis

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped…

— John Marsden

“Who do I write for? I thought about this again and again over the next few days until the answer crystalized in…

— Diriye Osman

“For as long as she can remember, telling stories has been her momma's gift to those around her, fables filled with rich,…

— Sara Stark

There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about…

— Richard Cabral

I thought that one of the things that we were losing sight of is the basic reasons that we do protect free…

— Floyd Abrams

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get…

— Donald Miller

God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. That’s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and…

— Andrew Peterson

I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television…

— Elijah Wood

“I learned to tell stories from my mom. "Your dad's not feeling well today," she'd say. I had an accident. She'd say,…

— Lauren Oliver

I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.

— John Petrucci

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

— David Farr

So much of science proceeds by telling stories.

— Anonymous

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

— Robert Mugabe

I love telling stories that allow people to be less afraid to tell theirs.

— Gina Rodriguez

Mark Twain had a way of telling stories that shifts your consciousness away from labels.

— Val Kilmer

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

— Ishaan Khatter

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

— Anthony Davis