Quotes about Story

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time. Votes: 4

Story telling is joke telling. Votes: 3

Story is what's most important. Votes: 3

Story , finally, is humanity 's autobiography . Votes: 3

Story book endings, fairytales coming true. Votes: 3

Story is about originality, not duplication Votes: 3

Story is the language of the heart. Votes: 3

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. Votes: 3

Story is about eternal, universal forms, not formulas. Votes: 3

A Christmas Story' is my favorite Christmas movie. Votes: 3

My favorite movie is Closer and Love Story. Votes: 3

I laughed all the way through Love Story. Votes: 3

You are the Hero of your own Story. Votes: 3

My favorite movie is 'Closer' and 'Love Story.' Votes: 3

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.' Votes: 3

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design. Votes: 2

Your story should inspire others. Your journey should inspire you. Votes: 2

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure. Votes: 2

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends. Votes: 2

Sometimes it's not just your favorite song. It's your untold story. Votes: 2

God is the story nature tells to those who are listening. Votes: 2

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. Votes: 2

But how could you live and have no story to tell? Votes: 2

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Votes: 2

The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold. Votes: 2

He was in the flow of time now. He was in a story. Votes: 2

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story. Votes: 2

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white. Votes: 2

If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it. Votes: 2

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. Votes: 2

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. Votes: 2

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens. Votes: 2

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end. Votes: 2

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle. Votes: 2

I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's right and wrong. Votes: 2

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. Votes: 2

The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. Votes: 2

For impact, tell your true story -challenges, victory, all. Build hope by helping others find themselves by your story. Votes: 2

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo. Votes: 2

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart. Votes: 2

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Votes: 2

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. Votes: 2

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you. Votes: 2

Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. Votes: 2

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. Votes: 2

If a story is w/out flaws or doubts, it is flattery or even brainwashing. You should read it as if drinking a glass of water. But be prepared - you would not remember its taste. Votes: 2

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story. Votes: 2

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after. Votes: 2

I often think to myself, at the end of an interesting life it's maybe not such a bad thing to spend your last days with your friends sitting by the blue, blue ocean reliving the story of your life while sitting in the dangerous sun. Votes: 2

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork. Votes: 2

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. Votes: 2

I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. Votes: 2

A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected. Votes: 2

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox. Votes: 2

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day. Votes: 2

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. Votes: 2

I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley. Votes: 2

Life is a story. Votes: 1

Just do it. Now. Votes: 1

Every story is us Votes: 1

No conflict no story Votes: 1

Tell the fucking story. Votes: 1

Everyday is judgement day Votes: 1

Make history, don't tell stories Votes: 1

A story knows its way. Votes: 1

Writing is a holy occupation. Votes: 1

Many stories magnify a fact. Votes: 1

We're all born an empty page. Votes: 1

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality. Votes: 1

You can rewrite your personal story! Votes: 1

Every project starts with a story. Votes: 1

I'd prefer her story than history. Votes: 1

There's a story behind every Bookworm! Votes: 1

Great design should tell a story. Votes: 1

Share your story with healing hearers. Votes: 1

I am content when writing short stories. Votes: 1

The story is uneven in its progression. Votes: 1

Acha alama katika dunia baada ya kuondoka. Votes: 1

Horror story is not result of accident. Votes: 1

SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES! Votes: 1

The greatest literature is the Biblical stories. Votes: 1

Every story is informed by a worldview. Votes: 1

Every experience is story to be written. Votes: 1

We write from soul of the heart. Votes: 1

Every story needs to be worth telling. Votes: 1

Everyone has a story - find yours! Votes: 1

A boy with a story must write. Votes: 1

A true love story has no endings. Votes: 1

A mystery is solved with a story. Votes: 1

Life is a story within a story. Votes: 1

Tell me a story. Be my storyteller. Votes: 1

Love? It's at the heart of every story. Votes: 1

True or not, it's important to have stories Votes: 1

Real inspiration are not people, but their stories. Votes: 1

i immersemyselfin youlikei immerse myselfinto a beautiful story. Votes: 1

The greatest story commandment is: Make me care. Votes: 1

Sometimes it's easier to tell ourselves a story. Votes: 1

Rewriting is the crucible where books are born. Votes: 1

Magician is the best storyteller in the world. Votes: 1

A little truth seasons a lie like salt. Votes: 1

You are not eternal. Leave an eternal mark. Votes: 1

The bigger the dream, the better the story. Votes: 1

We live in the world we made up. Votes: 1

No story is complete until it is written. Votes: 1

You are never too old to become younger! Votes: 1

Being a writer is a good, good thing. Votes: 1

Get lost in a story--in your dream fantasy Votes: 1

One life, One story. Make it a fairytale. Votes: 1

Only write a story that only you can write. Votes: 1

They say a story loses something with each telling. Votes: 1

The shortest distance between two people is a story. Votes: 1

It was more difficult not tounderstand than to understand. Votes: 1

Every song deserves lyrics. Deserves a story to tell. Votes: 1

A recipe is a story with a happy ending. Votes: 1

The end is the best part of any story Votes: 1

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story Votes: 1

When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn. Votes: 1

Music is not my life. My life is music. Votes: 1

We are all joined in a circle of stories. Votes: 1

We write to share our thoughts and our lives. Votes: 1

There's no reason to worryI started brand new story Votes: 1

A story just isn't a story without a dragon. Votes: 1

The story you live is the ripple you leave. Votes: 1

And now the story begins for the last time. Votes: 1

The truth of the story lies in the details. Votes: 1

His story is simple, because simple is always best. Votes: 1

The story we write today will support the next generation. Votes: 1

It's fiction, the improbable is very probable in my worlds Votes: 1

Without our listening, all the stories are the same story. Votes: 1

Stories are a kind of theme park of mortality. Deadnyland. Votes: 1

Free yourself from the inauthenticity and disempowerment of your story. Votes: 1

Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real. Votes: 1

The story of his great-grandfather was his own story, too. Votes: 1

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen. Votes: 1

Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me. Votes: 1

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. Votes: 1

Magicians and Mentalist predict the future because they create it. Votes: 1

Think like magician, present like magician and perform like magician. Votes: 1

A great brand is a story that's never completely told. Votes: 1

Would we believe their story; if the dead should return? Votes: 1

No one likes incomplete story, so does the God :-) Votes: 1

This love is hard core. Let's make it soft porn. Votes: 1

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain. Votes: 1

The art of survival is a story that never ends. Votes: 1

If something wants to be a story, it will be. Votes: 1

The life of the spirit is enfold in great literature. Votes: 1

Now Leroux, what think youOf this twist to the story? Votes: 1

It is the story that matters not just the ending. Votes: 1

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can. Votes: 1

One dead and one alone. That's how the story ends. Votes: 1

Do you know which is the greatest epic till date? Votes: 1

Would we believe their story of the dead, when they return? Votes: 1

If you own this story you get to write the ending. Votes: 1

When will you be brave enough to recognize your success story? Votes: 1

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar. Votes: 1

When will you be brave enough to recognize your success story? Votes: 1

All grown-ups were once childrenbut only few of them remember it. Votes: 1

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone? Votes: 1

People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales. Votes: 1

Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end? Votes: 1

A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you. Votes: 1

All experiences are stories to be told and must be written. Votes: 1

Somehow, the story of the book enhanced the story within it. Votes: 1

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories. Votes: 1

A night of full moon is favourable to tales of apparitions. Votes: 1

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature. Votes: 1

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary. Votes: 1

No one like the Incomplete Stories, so does the God :-) Votes: 1

Your eyes, ears and mind are imperfect in front of magic. Votes: 1

The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world. Votes: 1

The ink in the pen that writes success stories is FOCUS Votes: 1

In life, every ending is just the start of another story. Votes: 1

Coincidences; mix-ups; harmless mistakes and switches. And so a story is born. Votes: 1

Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word. Votes: 1

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books. Votes: 1

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argumentand the occasional bar fight. Votes: 1

When one's work hides behind simple, process is kind of long story. Votes: 1

If the institution of mathematics told a story how would it end? Votes: 1

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true. Votes: 1

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story. Votes: 1

No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story. Votes: 1

Stories change us. They change the world. People are stories of themselves. Votes: 1

A story isn't a good one unless it has a good listener Votes: 1

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action. Votes: 1

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine. Votes: 1

The path you create then follow becomes the story of your life. Votes: 1

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone. Votes: 1

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history Votes: 1

We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls. Votes: 1

I don't have a story, I said. I'm still waiting for one. Votes: 1

How the story will end, no one knows? We can only envisage. Votes: 1

The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things. Votes: 1

All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story. Votes: 1

Everyone had a story behind them, a past richer than she had imagined. Votes: 1

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought. Votes: 1

Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story. Votes: 1

Every story must have such a terrible moment, or it wouldn't be interesting. Votes: 1

It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family. Votes: 1

Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls. Votes: 1

Somehow life had become a story problem, and William was horrible at math. Votes: 1

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time. Votes: 1

The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them Votes: 1

A picture may tell a thousand words but it doesn't tell a story Votes: 1

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate. Votes: 1

At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow. Votes: 1

Life is a story, until I awake and saw life as a dream. Votes: 1

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration. Votes: 1

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history. Votes: 1

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time. Votes: 1

a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells. Votes: 1

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. Votes: 1

Hard to accept the end of a story that won the villain against heroes. Votes: 1

No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead. Votes: 1

Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen. Votes: 1

Kuandika hadithi ni kitu kimoja. Kuweka kanuni za fasihi katika hadithi ni kitu kingine. Votes: 1

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story. Votes: 1

It's a very remarkable story.Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away. Votes: 1

A good day is a good day. A bad day is a good story. Votes: 1

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. Votes: 1

If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings. Votes: 1

Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it. Votes: 1

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. Votes: 1

No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you. Votes: 1

The stories you believe to be true are the ones your life will become. Votes: 1

You story must be best told by you. Your experience is a sacred life. Votes: 1

Each write the story of your life, so try writing the best you can. Votes: 1

Tell your story to inspired other people to rise up and live their dreams. Votes: 1

Am not great, but being the story of every whisper is just the greatest. Votes: 1

Our stories are not new; yet, in the retelling we are reborn as heroes. Votes: 1

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream. Votes: 1

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story. Votes: 1

You can tell your story any way you damn well please.Its your solo. Votes: 1

There's a beginning to every story but there's never a story that begins the same. Votes: 1

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white. Votes: 1

When there is nothing to say about a book; we end up saying Beautiful Story. Votes: 1

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference. Votes: 1

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn't mean they're not worth telling. Votes: 1

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. Votes: 1

If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life. Votes: 1

She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine. Votes: 1

Our love story is not written yet, it is mix of stupidity, fun and devotion. Votes: 1

Hadithi ya maisha yangu ni yangu. Wewe ni nani kusema hadithi yangu si ya kweli? Votes: 1

Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply Insert Story Here. Votes: 1

Behind every drama is a good storybehind every tear is the person who wrote it. Votes: 1

You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information . Votes: 1

I'll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story. Votes: 1

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can. Votes: 1

Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on. Votes: 1

I travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told. Votes: 1

the lost sense that we play out our lives as part of a greater story Votes: 1

It is the kernel of truth in every story that makes its writing beautiful beyond standards. Votes: 1

Tolstoy said, happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story - then what does that make us? Votes: 1

Any experience, which is not written, will be lost in time. Rich literature is lost forever. Votes: 1

First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects. Votes: 1

For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists. Votes: 1

Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories. Votes: 1

Who lives inside your head? The hero of your story OR The victim of someone else's? Votes: 1

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change. Votes: 1

The story I am going to tell has more than one beginning and without an end. Votes: 1

So, what is my story? I don't know. It's long and twisted and not quite finished yet. Votes: 1

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you. Votes: 1

This isn't the kind of story where understanding makes you smart, or not understanding makes you dumb. Votes: 1

He says every story has at least some truth in it, even if most are made up. Votes: 1

Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101. Votes: 1

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn. Votes: 1

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. Votes: 1

Debt . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force. Votes: 1

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief. Votes: 1

It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true. Votes: 1

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. Votes: 1

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories. Votes: 1

Where does the story end? That's what it's all about. It's what we all want to know. Votes: 1

Look, the truth belongs to the guy who's best at sticking to his story,' said Ferguson. Votes: 1

Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship. Votes: 1

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on. Votes: 1

The moral of the story was that if you can talk, it's better not to tell the truth. Votes: 1

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. Votes: 1

We have story-makers and we have writers apparently most of the today's writing falls into the first category. Votes: 1

Writing nonfiction means I tell people's stories for them, not because they're special but because we all are. Votes: 1

Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself? Votes: 1

Our story may have any number of endings but its start is a singular choice we make today. Votes: 1

We are Living in the Last Chapters of LifeFind Your Purpose and make it the Best Story possible. Votes: 1

The story of getting there is greater than the story of being there. Wherever your there might be. Votes: 1

Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men. Votes: 1

This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love. Votes: 1

She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it. Votes: 1

Every good love story has a start and a finish. What matters is what happens in the middle. Votes: 1

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. Votes: 1

Everything from the humble woodlouse to specks of dust moving through a ray of sunlight. Each tells a story. Votes: 1

Read a short story every day. By the end of the week you would have read volumes of stories. Votes: 1

Lollypopthe passion contained merely kissesplaced upon lips, neck and cheekthese young lovers of the castleof which our fairytale speaks Votes: 1

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity. Votes: 1

By Aladdin's lamplit scrotum, man! Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth. Votes: 1

He made me feel unhinged like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again. Votes: 1

Stains tell a story,Zac said, waving his arms as he spoke. My car is full of random stains. Votes: 1

A story is nothing but a lie. An illusion. And that illusion only works if we trust in it. Votes: 1

Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds Votes: 1

Your thoughts become your BELIEFS. Your beliefs become your TRUTH. Your truth becomes your STORY. Your story IS your REALITY. Votes: 1

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. Votes: 1

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. Votes: 1

If you are reading this, you are still alive, and, therefore, the story is not over. Something else could happen. Votes: 1

The power of your story may not lie in its drama, but in its absolutely perfect relationship to your cause. Votes: 1

Perhaps somebody has alredy written it. But I want to write a story from the end till the very beginning. Votes: 1

As I prefer to see it, there has never been an epic love story that involved significant amounts of self-control. Votes: 1

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story Votes: 1

This was not a love story that ended in tragedy.This was a tragedy that ended in a love story. Votes: 1

There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones. Votes: 1

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story. Votes: 1

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story. Votes: 1

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary. Votes: 1

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story. Votes: 1

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story. Votes: 1

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. Votes: 1

Life's like the piano and the violin, it's about how smart you could play the melodies to make a good harmony. Votes: 1

I didn't find my story; it found me, as autobiography always does: finds you out in your deepest most private places. Votes: 1

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man. Votes: 1

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled. Votes: 1

With a little heartache; Gone with the time, Are certain memories, Intricately designed.To call & narrate A story of blissful sunshine. Votes: 1

Every individual is an author in himself. It is only that he falls short of words to express; list of stories. Votes: 1

It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy. Votes: 1

What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story. Votes: 1

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God? Votes: 1

You're in the story with the rest of us now, and you must go with it, whether you will or no. Votes: 1

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling. Votes: 1

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. Votes: 1

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly. Votes: 1

When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller. Votes: 1

You ought to the read stories of how people have endured the worst situation. You will find the strength to survive life. Votes: 1

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale Votes: 1

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. Votes: 1

Run your purpose on the toes of your feet before people can type your success stories with the fingers of their hands. Votes: 1

An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop. Votes: 1

Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it. Votes: 1

Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time' to allure and spellbind an audience. Votes: 1

That story you're scared to share --- that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others. Votes: 1

I hate it when everyone is so noble and good in a story that you can't imagine it being true at all. Votes: 1

New Year - a new chapter, new verse, or just the same old story ? Ultimately we write it. The choice is ours. Votes: 1

Write about us,Robinson urged. Tell our story.And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands. Votes: 1

You are the only author of the story of your life. 'Fate' is just an excuse for all of your wrong decisions. Votes: 1

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. Votes: 1

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. Votes: 1

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least. Votes: 1

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose. Votes: 1

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: 'Lies! Votes: 1

Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. Votes: 1

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs. Votes: 1

The Adventure called and I followed with my thumb like a character being written by an intractable author. Which, of course, I was. Votes: 1

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. Votes: 1

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte Votes: 1

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come. Votes: 1

You said this was only the beginning, I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story. Votes: 1

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey. Votes: 1

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person. Votes: 1

Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. Votes: 1

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes. Votes: 1

Our thoughts affect our agreement with reality, our story we tell ourselves. IF you want to change your story, start with your thoughts. Votes: 1

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story. Votes: 1

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. Votes: 1

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. Votes: 1

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. Votes: 1

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share. Votes: 1

She can paint a lovely picture, but this story has a twist. her paintbrush is a razor, and her canvas is her wrist. Votes: 1

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story. Votes: 1

Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading chapter 1. Continue to write the remaining chapters. Votes: 1

she has cratersbut only a fool can deny her beauty.She silently stare sun whole night& reflects his lighthis love with stars at times. Votes: 1

The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation. Votes: 1

All of our lives are a living, breathing story, and each heartbeat means a new page has been turned; chapters don't close, they continue. Votes: 1

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. Votes: 1

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story. Votes: 1

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward. Votes: 1

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character study; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss. Votes: 1

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. Votes: 1

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story. Votes: 1

To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. Votes: 1

He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer Votes: 1

Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still. Votes: 1

It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story. Votes: 1

Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists. Votes: 1

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child Votes: 1

The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen. Votes: 1

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss. Votes: 1

This is my lifemy storymy book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make. Votes: 1

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running. Votes: 1

It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284 Votes: 1

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men Votes: 1

What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us. Votes: 1

We build our understanding of the emotional world through the myths and legends of our culture. We are all, in part, made of fairy tales. Votes: 1

Nothing stayed, nothing ever changed. But love, only love, that was the true part of the story, no matter what the beginning, middle or end. Votes: 1

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending. Votes: 1

I see a broken shell and I remind myself that something might have needed setting free. See, broken things always have a story, don't they? Votes: 1

People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.The storyteller should tell it. Votes: 1

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper. Votes: 1

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded. Votes: 1

you are amazed by her brain, and observation. you are caught by hereverywhere ,where you try to hide yourfeelings,and never wanted to say-you loved her. Votes: 1

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place. Votes: 1

I know the resolution. I know the end of the story before it ever begins. I must choose love. And for this, I will surely die. Votes: 1

Here is a story in the worst way. I have no business being anywhere in it. It comes between me and the life I have coming. Votes: 1

Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you. Votes: 1

Remember each new day you get to turn a page in your life and write your own story. So how do you choose to write it? Votes: 1

Your doubts do nothing than pouring cold water on your enviable dreams. Just keep doubts away from you and you will not dilute your success story! Votes: 1

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be. Votes: 1

While I cannot prevent the birds from flying over my head, I can prevent them from making a nest in my hair. - Chapter 5 My Cinderella Votes: 1

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. Votes: 1

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader. Votes: 1

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me. Votes: 1

Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world Votes: 1

You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story. Votes: 1

As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories, finished or unfinished. Votes: 1

Curiosity is the intellectual need to answer questions and close open patterns. Story plays to this universal desire by doing the opposite, posing questions and opening situations. Votes: 1

Kanuni za fasihi ndiyo msingi wa maandiko yote ya kitaalamu hapa ulimwenguni. Watu hawana budi kuzifuata kanuni hizo kama wanataka kutumia vipaji vyao katika ngazi ya kimataifa. Votes: 1

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. Votes: 1

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world. Votes: 1

Sometimes a homeland becomes a tale. We love the story because it is about our homeland and we love our homeland even more because of the story. Votes: 1

When your life flashes through your eyes make sure there is enough to see, until then work hard on your ambitions and live life to the fullest. Votes: 1

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story. Votes: 1

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever. Votes: 1

We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been. Votes: 1

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. Votes: 1

When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell. Votes: 1

It is one of those stories that you just want to keep going and going - even after the last page has been reached. Kristie Leigh Maguire Votes: 1

Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear isA story of our fate! Votes: 1

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest. Votes: 1

The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it some stories just don't have a happy ending. Votes: 1

To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know. Votes: 1

She looked at the boy. He knew her weakness for storytelling. And it was, after all, only a story. Still, she wished he had chosen a happier one. Votes: 1

Upnext is your successbut before that, remember up there is your God who requires from you to be upright to fulfill your destiny! Be up and keep going! Votes: 1

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means. Votes: 1

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters. Votes: 1

If you want to know someone's story, they have to tell it aloud. But every time, the telling is a little but different. It's new, even to me. Votes: 1

I know have lived, so many times, that the only thing I have left to remember is my writing, cause every single moment in life it's already written. Votes: 1

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. Votes: 1

Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body. Votes: 1

Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( Waiting for the pieces to fall into place ) Votes: 1

With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word. Votes: 1

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls Votes: 1

Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life. Votes: 1

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. Votes: 1

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world. Votes: 1

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama. Votes: 1

Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing. Votes: 1

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies. Votes: 1

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. Votes: 1

Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is. Votes: 1

The monsters were neverunder my bed.Because the monsterswere inside my head.I fear no monsters,for no monsters I see.Because all this timethe monster has been me. Votes: 1

When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus! Votes: 1

some stories are sudden like an inhale, some are overcoming like the tides, some, we name mistake, some are called lessons. Storiestragic, romantic, comedy. We make them, they make us . Votes: 1

I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll. Votes: 1

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on. Votes: 1

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close. Votes: 1

The story writes you as much as you write it. And the process of re-writing isn't so much a quest to re-write the story as it is to re-write the writer. Votes: 1

No one could say the stories were uselessfor as the tongue clackedfive or forty fingers stitchedcorn was grated from the huskpathwork was piecedor the darning was done(from 'The Storyteller Poems') Votes: 1

We do not have to see the beginning and the end of our lives, but we must close our eyes and live as if we didn't start or would never end. Votes: 1

My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded. Votes: 1

Listening over and over to the voices through a family of instruments allowed us to recognize and appreciate the dignity and uniqueness of each living thing in the meadow and forest. Votes: 1

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story. Votes: 1

There were good places and bad places to tell stories and there were of course stories that could not be told in any place on earth and these were reserved for heaven. Votes: 1

Books,' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still the same thing. But it's exciting all over again. Votes: 1

My story is a sad and lonely one, and beautiful and lively and joyful. It's not perfect; it is what it is.This is a story.But it is not a fairytale. Votes: 1

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. Votes: 1

If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love. Votes: 1

In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good. Votes: 1

This is my story. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere beautiful, and I know I'm on my wayIt's been a beautiful adventure. It always will be. Votes: 1

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty OneI am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. Votes: 1

You must never tell people their own stories. They have no interest in them, or they think they can tell them better themselves. Give them a stranger's life, and then they're content. Votes: 1

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves. Votes: 1

The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. Votes: 1

The way you live your day is a sentence in the story of your life. Each day you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. Votes: 1

History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past. Votes: 1

Our powerful hunger for myth is a hunger for community. The person without a myth is a person without a homeTo be a member of one's community is to share in its myths Votes: 1

She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience. Votes: 1

He gets away with it because he's strong.''This is the story of mankind.''I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.''Yes. But then I read the newspaper. Votes: 1

Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise. Votes: 1

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story. Votes: 1

Magic is the most interesting art because people not necessarily want to learn to paint after they see a great painting, but they want to learn magic after they see a great magic effect. Votes: 1

Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat. Votes: 1

A good story or a book is all about it's power to hold it's readers still till the very last word of it's climax - complexity in language, dialogues, descriptions, everything else is secondary! Votes: 1

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes. Votes: 1

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors. Votes: 1

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other. Votes: 1

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe. Votes: 1

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor. Votes: 1

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell. Votes: 1

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning.The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. Votes: 1

Don't tell me that I can't do it. Go and tell God that story. After all, He is the one who gave me the air to breath and be able to do it well! Go! Votes: 1

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. Votes: 1

Without trials and tribulation, there would be no hero. Without a hero, there would be no story. Without a story, there is no life as life is made up of vignettes of loving, learning and overcoming. Votes: 1

Some of us think we already know the answer. They are the people who close a book and never think about it again. To them, the story ends at the words 'The End' and that's that. Votes: 1

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos. Votes: 1

The meaning did not precede the dream; the dream preceded the meaning. So the way to read the tale is to let the imagination carry one along. Not, above all, as a rebus to be decoded. Votes: 1

I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story. Votes: 1

and suddenly I am washed over by a wave of happiness for it, for my little story, because it is a place, a home even, and I can go back to it from wherever I am Votes: 1

The minute grains of sand slipped silently down the curved hourglass, no matter how many times the people of Earth willed them not to. Time, fate and the actions of others were out of their control. Votes: 1

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated. Votes: 1

The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again Votes: 1

Well, we're originally from Glace Bay.Grandma Elsie's eyes glittered. She was looking at one of her own, a lost Cape Bretoner in need of help and offering a new story. Tell me all about it, dear. Votes: 1

And then perhaps someone will write a book about making a film about a story that is taken from this book which is taken from a real-life story that was copied from a story in a book. You know? Votes: 1

I love books where I can't wait to turn every page, songs that grab me the first time I hear them, and films that make me totally forget about the craft because I am totally engaged in the story. Votes: 1

Life is how you brew it. Wake up, you have a story to tell. Don't chase vain glory, your story will tell it. You owe it to yourself to write the lines of your story in the ink of purpose! Votes: 1

My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind Votes: 1

It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell. Votes: 1