Quotes About Stories

If I didn't have a boy, at least I had plenty of stories about boys. And honestly? Some of the stories were better than the boys themselves.

can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean. She

can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean.

The Artist's impressions of a walk in the woods. The Artist's view on viewing. The Artist on Art. How do you get your ideas for stories, Mr. Valentine? Well, I simply exploit everything I come into contact with. One ended, of course, by losing all spontaneity. You saw people as characters, sunsets as an excuse for similes—

You ever been to Tijuana?" he asked. Most of Dupont's stories began with a question and ended with an insatiable woman, buck naked and begging for more.

When I'm told such stories, it's all I can do to hold back my feelings of jealousy. An Ethiopian slaughterhouse. Some people have all the luck.

My Yiayiá was exactly the sort of friend I'd liked as an adult, someone with an endless supply of hard-luck stories and no desire to ever write a book.

True or not, it's important to have stories ? they are what give us the right to walk the earth and have a name.

Admiralty House was a modest structure, only a little over a hundred stories in height

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven't yet been completely told.

Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

What I believe to be memories are probably daydreams. Still, my own sentimentality yearns for them as if they were the truth, suspect or twisted though they may be. I have forgotten that they were stories I heard from another and feel an intimacy with them as if they were my own direct memories -from Oil

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here.

I'd love the opportunity to continue to work in the U.S. with people I have always admired and I also want keep telling stories from where I'm from.

I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.

I've got stories on every one of my albums, big ones.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

In many ways, I've been writing personal stories all my life.

What's interesting about the U.K. is that it celebrates an alternative voice. It's up for telling new stories.

People tell me I'm very ambitious right now. But I just have a lot of stories in my head, and why can't I do them all?

I learned a lot about American history though jazz, and that's why I loved American history when I was in high school. I could hear different stories - the story that they would tell in school, and then the story that I would hear in the music.

I could see myself doing more color in the future - I love being able to analyze game by game and share the stories with the players.