Quotes About Stories

Thomas, Chess said, if you don't want to be famous and have your stories heard, then why'd you start the band up? I heard voices, Thomas said. I guess I heard voices. I mean, I'm sort of a liar, enit? I like the attention. I want strangers to love me. I don't even know why. But I want all kids of strangers to love me. The Indian horses screamed.

There were all sorts of myths and legends surrounding the lake. I mean, we're Indians, and we like to make up shit about lakes, you know?

We are all given one thing by which our lives are measured, one determination. Mine are the stories which can change or not change the world. It doesn't matter which as long as I continue to tell the stories.

Are we not all a thousand characters in millions of plays throughout our lifetime?

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.

I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!

Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

She smiled. "Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs

People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

There's no shortage of material in life.

By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

I would say I try to make my comedy really personal. I try to tell stories that happened to me, experiences from my life.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me.