Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without...

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

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

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

There’s no reason to worryI started brand new story

I tell the story to you now, but in each telling the story itself changes a little, changes direction, and that in turn changes you and me. So be very careful not only in how...

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of...

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn’t anyone?

Isn’t there a flaw in the logic of that phrase – speak truth to power? It assumes that power doesn’t know the truth. But power knows the truth just as well, if not better, than...

It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I’m not trying to...

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

I once held a belief that life made sense, that working toward a dream would birth substance. Nothing else mattered. I soon discovered that success is as long-lasting as any of life’s novelties. We’ve all...

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

They’re just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don’t think that’s a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you’d have to do it. And I’d want to do it.

The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can’t write a story where someone is a simple victim because it’s boring.

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don’t appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

now-person” and do it now!

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

I really told my story as I saw it in ‘Cross to Bear,’ and I was pleased – and a bit surprised – by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2...

When CNN does a story and then says, ‘Tweet us what you think’ – why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It’s enough...

I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.”[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January...

We are all joined in a circle of stories.

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it’s the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.

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

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.

At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don’t recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a...

There would be times in the years to come when he ( Murphy ) would accompany me back and forth between the two worlds I’d come to know. Other times, Yipes would venture out over...

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an...

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death...

I first saw ‘West Side Story’ on stage in 1958. I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM. I caught the musical in New York, fell in love with it,...

If there’s some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I’ve gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.

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

As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with...

What you never want to do is have a story that doesn’t track emotionally, because then you’re going joke to joke and you’re going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that’s going to string...

It’s very important to not repeat yourself. After ‘Delhi Belly,’ I was offered 40 ‘Delhi Belly’s and you can’t do that! So ‘Revolver Rani’ is dark and gritty with action, ‘Sooper Se Oopar’ is a...

I’m not really a plot writer – I’m more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

I’ll tell you a secret.Old storytellers never die.They disappear into their own story.

‘Rocky’ is a movie that just happens to be about boxing. It’s really about characters and story lines and relationships and all those things, and the backdrop is boxing. You can go back and watch...

Child” said the Voice, “I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There’s nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

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.

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.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

I’m not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that matter, Christianity. Like most religions, it has irreconcilable shortcomings and an unforgivable history....

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren’t told or books weren’t written, man would live like the beasts, only for the...

I’ve been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being...