Quotes About Story

telling the story so no one else tells it for you.

Think of me,' she said because it seemed like something a girl in a fairy tale might say. Think of me. Remember me. Love me. Turn me into a story you tell again and again. The sister who was good as gold and became a queen.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

The mistake of Marc Antony's death haunts all suicides, with its reminder that we do not always know where we really are in our story.

History Even Eve, the only soul in all of time to never have to wait for love, must have leaned some sleepless nights alone against the garden wall and wailed, cold, stupefied, and wild and wished to trade-in all of Eden to have but been a child. In fact, I gather that is why she leapt and fell from grace, that she might have a story of herself to tell in some other place.

There's beauty in every story. And there's a story in everything.

The air there was heavy with the somnolence of a party prolonged into the early hours; and a dull light came from the lamps, whose charred wicks glowed red inside their globes. The ladies had reached that vaguely melancholy hour when they felt it necessary to tell each other the story of their lives.

My godfather sad that story was abut taking the chaotic jigsaw of life, making it into a picture and putting a frame around it so that we could look at it, have control over it. Story and art are the humanizing elements of us.

CHAPTER SEVEN A TALK WITH THE CARETAKER

And humans will accept any story, however outlandish, when there's something in it for them. Preferably something green that folds.

By the time his vision had settled, the dwarf had disappeared into a maelstrom of churning muck. Butler decided not to attempt pursuit. Dying below ground was not very high on this *things to do* list. But there will be another day, fairy, he thought grimly. And there was to be. But that's another story.

Narrative is the frame upon which we hang selected swaths of experience in order to construct a shelter of meaning.

Change the game: 1. Adjust the arena. 2. Re-rig the rules. 3. Attack the plan. Change the story: 1. Describe the alternative. 2. Organize in narratives. 3. Make your fight a fable. Change the equation: 1. Act exponentially. 2. Act reciprocally. 3. Perform your power.

One thing I understood from the beginning is that the press almost completely tunes out abstractions. They won't write about ideas without larger-than-life personalities fronting them. Everything has to be story, drama, conflict, sound bites. Otherwise, most reporters will simply go to sleep — and even if they don't, their editors will.

Excelente historia no es la típica historia de amor predecible, me agrado el aire de suspenso y acción que te envuelve de principio a fin me encanto la prosa y la narración se queda en mis favoritos del 2015

But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations?

How had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated plain, the hand of destiny had stayed so far inland, away from the busy coastlines, to alight on the people who were, of all, the most stubbornly rooted in the silt of the Ganga, in a soil that had to be sown with suffering to yield its crop of story and song? It was as if fate had thrust its fist through the living flesh of the land in order to tear away a piece of its stricken heart.

This is my gift to you, this story that is also a song, these words that are a part of Fokir. Such flaws as there are in my rendition of it I do not regret, for perhaps they will prevent me from fading from sight, as a good translator should. For once, I shall be glad if my imperfections render me visible.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

The most powerful story is happening inside your customer's head, a personal narrative of how engaging with your product will transform them into a more powerful, more skillful, more connected version of themselves.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Do any wedding rings have happy stories?" Felix asked, sounding exasperated. "Well, yes. But those are the rings that usually end up on the fingers of happy corpses or being willed to happy people who wear them to their own weddings.