Stories Quotes

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

I like stories that affect families.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness.

I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow of being in my daughter's life every day and getting to keep my work life alive. I'm not nominated for ten thousand everythings every minute, but I am acting and telling stories I love.

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.

My stories are character driven.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.