Ancient Quote by Isak Dinesen Download Open image “I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller.” — Isak Dinesen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancient Ancient Idle Idle Storyteller Tribe Tribe Storyteller Tribes Useless Useless Tribe Writer Writing
I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who for many… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
We all belong to a tribe. You might be a religious or a family person - that's your tribe. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there. — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller. My whole family is storytellers. I'm just a product of my environment. — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
I wanted to know who my people were. And I - I think like a lot of Americans - thought that I could find… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed… — Ruth Sawyer Copy Share Image
I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller. — James Welch Copy Share Image
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I don't know if I've come of age, but I'm certainly older now. I feel shrunken, as if there's a tiny ancient Oliver Tate… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect… — Laozi Copy Share Image
So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
