Quotes About Stories

Nas ondas estão escritas mil estórias, dessas de embalar as crianças do inteiro mundo.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

There are only three generic human stories, considered in all their multifaceted dimensions: the love story, good versus evil, and the quest.

I'm just letting you know that these stories I'm writing are not going to be about a superhero TV kind of dog. Our dog Mister Mosely. And they will all be true. Even the ones that I wish weren't.

Most stories are not about people but about life, an addiction like the rest of them that destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

Statistics don't appeal to our need to understand cause and effect, which is why they are so frequently ignored or misinterpreted. Stories, on the other hand, are a rich means to communicate precisely because they emphasize cause and effect.

All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create. -from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)

and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of ourselves and the world are all-powerful.

The old stories must be learned anew, studied again within the context of a world at odds with itself and only able to be redeemed by the brush of the wing of the great bird of spirit.

Strange questions are the more interesting ones. Children by and large don't try to trip you up... they want to find out how you do this funny thing that you do... if they've loved a story they love to know how it started.

When children are very young, you read them books that are positive to help them go to sleep. But there comes a moment when they begin to understand the difficulties of the world. They know there are problems and the books they read should reflect that, not gloss over them.

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

The real power belongs to the people who control information,' he says, still staring at the ground. 'Individuals who can suppress stories, fix problems, spin news and plant false information

Every childhood has a mythology that materialises around it. We add our own desires and dreams until the stories become like parables that are more emblematic than edifying.

Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in sleep we tell ourselves stories through our dreams, and it's been shown that those who are prevented from doing so cease to function.

The need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens—second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

There is a powerful sense of liberation in Wells's stories, but it does not stem from political ideas; it comes from the realization that the world is capable of dramatic change and transformation. Habit and routine are ripped aside to reveal a stranger, more exciting universe than we had been led to expect.

Trump talked nonstop and constantly repeated himself. "Here's the deal," a close Trump associate told Priebus. "In an hour meeting with him you're going to hear fifty-four minutes of stories and they're going to be the same stories over and over again. So you have to have one point to make and you have to pepper it in whenever you can.

Perry Fitzgerald's sermons were like dharma talks: he spoke as if casually following a train of thought, telling stories, recalling poems, and explicating spiritual and theological concepts as they occurred to him. On the page, however, the skillful construction of this conversational style was obvious.

I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.

There are stories to tell that are not songs.

Surviving victims and family members of victims should realise that by discussing the details of a murder with journalists they are seriously jeopardising the chances that the suspect might be found guilty in court. They can sell their stories as soon as the case is closed and the killer is behind bars.