Life Quote by David Shields Download Open image “I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.” — David Shields ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life My life Story World Worst
I was never a joke teller. I don't even like jokes, for the most part. I don't like to hear them, and rarely can… — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand bucks and… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy… — Ron Shock Copy Share Image
Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller in a joke format. I tell stories, I try to have a lot of jokes constantly through that story. I never… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'. These are called true stories.” — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
To be honest, there are parts of 'How Literature Saved My Life' that began as interviews. Someone was telling me that they think the… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told… — David Shields Copy Share Image
You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's. — David Shields Copy Share Image
We're completely confused about the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction. To me, the moment you compose, you're fictionalising; the moment you remember, you're dreaming.… — David Shields Copy Share Image
Your art is most alive and dangerous when you use it against yourself. That's why I pick at my scabs. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary… — David Shields Copy Share Image
I've always liked this idea that writing should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable to create trouble. The value of a work of… — David Shields Copy Share Image
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as… — David Shields Copy Share Image
“A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.” — David Shields Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
