Quotes About Stories

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale...

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all–no one's around to write horror stories.

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories.

Your dreams, values, memories, and stories make for endlessly interesting conversations. If you hear a dream or goal you like from someone else, steal it! p135

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

I'm overflowing with stories, delighted and quite mad with the beauty and tragedy of them.

... each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.

Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.

We're definitely going to hell. But we'll have all the best stories to tell

To me, there are lots of different stories to tell and you usually find the best way to tell the one you are telling once you are in it.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

The stories about broadcast dying or it being overtaken by cable have stopped. Same goes for the stories about the Internet hurting our business.

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

our minds wander off into all kinds of stories and fabrications and manufactured realities

figuring out was is real isn't always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories

I felt a sense of brotherhood with anybody who peddled stories... A crowd had gathered around one man who sold pamphlets. He was in his early twenties, and you could tell from his appearance - dark skin, dirty collar, cheap blue suit - that he was a migrant. But he spoke beautifully, holding the crowd with his words... He sold pamphlets not because he needed to, but because the pamphlets deserved to be sold.

Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination.

I believe we find imaginative satisfaction in stories that end with weddings because we live in a world that will end with a wedding. The Bible tells the story of history, a story that is mysteriously 'built into' the structure of our minds and practices, so that even writers who resist this story cannot help but leave traces of it—faint and distorted as they may be—on every page.

is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.