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...

At the end of the day, we’re all striving to be touched, somehow.

Curiously enough, I was one of the first to have some say in Hollywood. By sheer accident, I had four successes in a row in the early 30’s and, although I was still in my...

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

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit — in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

Any story is better with a little love in it, right?

My job is to tell a story, and the decisions about the casting have to be honest.

It doesn’t matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie’s not entertaining, if the story’s not entertaining.

I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short 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...

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for ‘The Namesake,’ I felt that it had to be a novel – it couldn’t work as a story.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years...

With respect to the books of the New Testament, particularly such parts as tell us of the resurrection and ascension of Christ, any person who could tell a story of an apparition, or of a...

Audiences have become so much more sophisticated, and they’re looking for different eyes and different ways to tell a story. And ‘Scandal’ certainly gives us the freedom to take those chances.

There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the difference between the ladder-defined life and the cross-defined life than that of the Tower of Babel.

I’ve made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for...

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.

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.

Or was Chris thinking, as I was, that if we went tothe police and told our story, our faces would be splashed on the frontpages of every newspaper in the country? Would the glare of...

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

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing ‘Cum Laude.’ So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of...

Her silent singing wrapped around the story she was telling herself, which she extended further every night on the deck. (Averill often told herself stories– the activity seemed to her as unavoidable as dreaming.) Her...