Get Quote by Yann Martel Download Open image “Most of us get our history through story.” — Yann Martel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Get History Most Our Stories Story Through Us
Our understanding of history goes awry when we only tell one part of the story. — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
I think we take the history we want to take in order to back up the stories we want to hear. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a lot of… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it. — Dorothy Salisbury Davis Copy Share Image
So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is… — Alanis Obomsawin Copy Share Image
I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story. — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I love casting against type and doing things you wouldn't expect, because I think you get more interesting performances that way. Hollywood loves to… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is.… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to… — Danielle Panabaker Copy Share Image
