Quotes About Stories

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.

CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.

I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.

You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.

In every house, when the curtains are drawn, there's a story going on, and you never get to hear... You get the public side of things, the happy, smiling, social activities.

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

I don't send and receive messages on Snapchat; I never have. Stories is the only feature I use. I think of them becoming a more dynamic social network, and I think it's great.

These are human issues. These are human stories. I think that's why 'Fences' has been able to resonate and been able to hit so many people over the years because it is just that. You can't run away from the racial specifics of it, but that's just a part of it.

So many stories have been told about Black Lives Matter. The beauty of building out a decentralized network, the beauty of building out something that's a hashtag, is that so many people can take it and run with it. The bad part about that is so many folks can take it and run with it - and misuse it and co-opt it.

There are so many people that want to tell stories. I think that the issue is how hard it is to get your foot in the door to tell your stories.

I've met so many people who have come up to tell me their personal stories, and a lot of them express the same feelings that I have, especially reading things online.

I never let myself forget that I'm really lucky in my work to be able to discover so many people and places, and to have the opportunity to bring some of their stories to new audiences.

With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.

As Peret asserts, the value of such stories resides in the fact that they respond to direct social necessity but in a way that is not obvious in a society dominated by what is utilitarian and functional. Rather they represent a natural surplus of imaginative abundance that may confound or reinforce the way we perceive the world, but which never does so in a simple way. Even though they may have no direct social use, they nonetheless embody the actual state of real relations between people.

Our lives make awesome stories, especially if you don't get too attached to the thread of your own narrative.

Humans are born with the power of creation, and we are constantly creating stories with the words that we learned.

Not believing their strongest opinions was the most powerful tool for awareness. Not believing their own thoughts, and the stories they'd created, was the best path to freedom. They fed on superstition, and my message to them was one of common sense. Appetites would have to change.

Cerita-cerita dipertahankan, seperti harta karun masih akan muncul di pasar dari waktu ke waktu, jika seorang tahu dimana mencarinya.

Control what people believe, and you control what they do. Who they are. The world is only the aggregate of human perception. Stories are scalpels that allow us to operate on those perceptions.

When I was a girl, I heard stories about Vulcans who could touch minds," she said. "Is it true?" "Yes," he said, revealing his people's most closely guarded secret, one for which entire species—such as the Betazoids and the Ullians—had been all but exterminated.

I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means I ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

I don't know whether my nation will perish and I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means i ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

All at once I understood that it had only been my illusion that we ourselves saddle events and control their courses; the truth is that they aren't our stories at all, that they are foisted on us from somewhere outside; that in no way do they represent us; that we are not to blame for the strange paths they follow; that they are themselves directed from who knows where by who knows what strange forces.

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.