Quotes About Stories

I don't know any successful entrepreneur that doesn't have at least a handful of stories about the things they did that went horribly wrong.

When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens.

I have so many ideas and stories that I want to tell. But sitting down to write is a hard thing to do.

My mother was a very hard-working maid, and their stories are worth telling.

Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

After 'Sea Hawks,' television became very strange for me, I could not relate to the stories that were being shown on TV.

Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

When you're talking to legends, they've already went through this process of playing in the NBA and also living after their career is over. Being able to hear their stories, how they've had success and others have had success to get an idea of what we should be looking to do and know what we need to do is just really helpful.

Digital content is getting very popular especially with the youth in India, hence short films are a great opportunity to tell different kinds of stories for the young audiences.

I think, as long as you tell real stories, I think people will respond to it no matter whether or not it's in the context of super heroes.

In most of my stories, I give a lot of importance to heroines. My heroines are not just glamour dolls.

I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.

Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

Speaking in Hindi has helped me a lot as I can tell my stories with the exact idiom in which they come to me. I think it also helps the audience when I am speaking in a language that is non-elite, so to say, as my stories are also from that perspective.

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.

We tend, in discussion, to reduce stories to plot (what happens). We feel, correctly, that something of their meaning resides there. But stories also mean through their internal dynamics—the manner in which they unfold, the way one part interacts with another, the instantaneous, felt, juxtaposition of elements.

My Lord Bedlington had not kept company with the Regent for years without acquiring a hard head and the digestion of an ostrich. Mellow he might become, and indiscreet stories he certainly told, but not his worst enemy would have accused him of being foxed.

maybe all the saints in heaven will look down on our homeward journey and listen in on our stories. I dare say they relish a good story as much as the next man.' 'Amen,' said the Parson thoughtfully. 'Amen!' roared the rest of us.