Stories Quotes

Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

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.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.

With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.

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.