Story Quotes - Page 8

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.

SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES!

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.

Most cowgirls are natural storytellers, their art honed by years of practice. . . . It serves as entertainment; it also preserves the humor and value of a unique way of life.

Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

History isn't all fact-it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past.

It doesn't matter what story we're telling, we're telling the story of family.

Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams.

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

People who are left alone tell the story but are never a part of it; those who are a part of the crowd, are story bound, acting upon the role assigned to them in the theater of living, loving and longing.

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit - in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.