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My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and t...
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KELLY JONES![]()
I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevide...
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ISHMAEL BEAH![]()
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ...
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BILL PHILLIPS![]()
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON![]()
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE![]()
I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an ...
MAX VON ESSEN If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
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All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...
SHIRLEY JACKSON My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me intereste...
LAURA CARMICHAEL![]()
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality an...
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ELLEN KLAGES Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY![]()
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were...
WALLY LAMB![]()
I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories fr...
CARMEN AGRA DEEDY![]()
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of...
LAUREN WOLK My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he...
RACHEL KUSHNER My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother a...
LEON BRIDGES![]()
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ![]()
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ![]()
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ![]()
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
SUN TZU When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
DARIO FO![]()
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for re...
JOE BASTIANICH![]()
In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do tha...
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CHRIS CAVANAUGH I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books...
LOUIS L'AMOUR The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG![]()
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered...
ASHWIN SANGHI![]()
Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell ...
NINA BAWDEN![]()
The trees around and overhead were so thick that it was always dry inside and on Sunday morning I la...
SHIRLEY JACKSON![]()
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively...
TERRI WINDLING At least the top two stories are ablaze, and the bottom three or four stories ablaze. And in the mid...
BRENT SADLER![]()
My mind is killing me”
— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON![]()
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
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I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem ...
J. COLE![]()
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON![]()
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER![]()
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS...![]()
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was rea...
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA![]()
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder...
PATRICIA BRIGGS My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Ala...
DANA STABENOW I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL![]()
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER![]()
Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists fi...
DAVID DUCHOVNY I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, ...
ALEX WINTER I wish my son could have known her instead of telling him stories about her.
JOHN BENNETT![]()
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stan...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know t...
CARL DODD If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
ALAN COHEN All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pa...
DAVID MIXNER![]()
We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a...
AVA DUVERNAY![]()
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH![]()
Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are curre...
NEIL GAIMAN She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her
SUSAN ENGBERG![]()
Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG![]()
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH![]()
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it a...
HENRY GRATTON DOYLE These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time....
EDWIDGE DANTICAT Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be tol...
SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had n...
ALAN GARNER![]()
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE Stories shared in your kitchen will strengthen your family than the stories shared your bedroom
KENNETH MAHUKA![]()
An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER![]()
In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero...
GRAEME SIMSION You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience w...
MICHAEL HANEKE You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
LEO ORNSTEIN It wasn't a question of if I was doing it. I was doing it. They told my mother I had talent and she ...
JANE CHOC![]()
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE![]()
Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
SADE ADU![]()
I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the mas...
CARRIE RYAN Born too late to explore the world, born too early too explore the universe.
INTERNET MEME PROVERB![]()
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little...
JAMES ROLLINS![]()
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET![]()
Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY![]()
The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories wer...
JOHN CONNOLLY All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON![]()
The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneo...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
PAULE MARSHALL
Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; the... IRVINE WELSH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevide... EDUARDO GALEANO I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral ...
ISHMAEL BEAH
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be... BEN OKRI
Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ... ERIN MORGENSTERN Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE First it was the fascinating comic book art that caught my attention, ... Later, I began to read the...
BILL PHILLIPS
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv...
ABIGAIL GEORGE
I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an ... MAX VON ESSEN If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.
GEORGE P. PELECANOS She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING
All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this... SHIRLEY JACKSON My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me intereste...
LAURA CARMICHAEL
My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality an... WALTER MOSLEY Short stories are my favorite art form. A good one is compact and complete, a telling little slice o...
ELLEN KLAGES Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written t...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were... WALLY LAMB
I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories fr... CARMEN AGRA DEEDY
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of...
LAUREN WOLK My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he...
RACHEL KUSHNER My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother a...
LEON BRIDGES
There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move. SUN TZU When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
DARIO FO
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for re... JOE BASTIANICH
In documentary filmmaking, there's a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do tha... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the ...
CHRIS CAVANAUGH I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books...
LOUIS L'AMOUR The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG
Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered... ASHWIN SANGHI
Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER I grew up on a suburban street with lace curtains and dull neighbours, so I made up stories to tell ...
NINA BAWDEN
The trees around and overhead were so thick that it was always dry inside and on Sunday morning I la... SHIRLEY JACKSON
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively... TERRI WINDLING At least the top two stories are ablaze, and the bottom three or four stories ablaze. And in the mid...
BRENT SADLER
My mind is killing me”— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev... TANITH LEE I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem ... J. COLE
No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON
It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS...
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was rea... JUAN FELIPE HERRERA
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for moder... PATRICIA BRIGGS My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Ala...
DANA STABENOW I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER
Linda Brewer's example is inspiring, colorful and potentially very funny. Her journey also exists fi... DAVID DUCHOVNY I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, ...
ALEX WINTER I wish my son could have known her instead of telling him stories about her.
JOHN BENNETT
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stan... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know t...
CARL DODD If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
ALAN COHEN All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pa...
DAVID MIXNER
We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a... AVA DUVERNAY
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are curre... NEIL GAIMAN She had a new secret, the strenght of the moon, looking at her
SUSAN ENGBERG
Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist ... STEVEN SPIELBERG it is better to have red a great work of another culture in translation than never to have read it a...
HENRY GRATTON DOYLE These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time....
EDWIDGE DANTICAT Some people believe in telling stories. Some believe in doing things about which stories will be tol...
SHARAD VIVEK SAGAR My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had n...
ALAN GARNER
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE Stories shared in your kitchen will strengthen your family than the stories shared your bedroom
KENNETH MAHUKA
An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER
In Hong Kong, I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera”, in which the hero... GRAEME SIMSION You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience w...
MICHAEL HANEKE You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's...
N.K. JEMISIN But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.
LEO ORNSTEIN It wasn't a question of if I was doing it. I was doing it. They told my mother I had talent and she ...
JANE CHOC
To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE
Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends. SADE ADU
I remember my mother telling me earlier that we are nothing more than our stories. I look at the mas... CARRIE RYAN Born too late to explore the world, born too early too explore the universe.
INTERNET MEME PROVERB
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little...
JAMES ROLLINS
I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET
Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY
The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories wer... JOHN CONNOLLY All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON
The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneo... KILROY J. OLDSTER
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. 
Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind... 
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. 
Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is you... 
I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of th... 
I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and f... 
No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the Sta... 
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice... 
Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're... 
There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. 
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place name... 
Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time. 
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies ... 
Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor. 
Right or wrong, the customer is always right. 
I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound... 
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. 
There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause. 
The uncommitted life isn't worth living. 
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. 
Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. 
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are ... 
The power to tax is the power to destroy. 
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the p... 
Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action... 
In fiction film, there are so many trappings - money, glory, champagne and supermodels - that attrac... 
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal ... 
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. 
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c... 
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de... 