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Telling Stories Quotes (page 22)

Joe Strummer quote: "everybody has a story to tell"
everybody has a story to tell Joe Strummer
Joan Didion quote: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live."
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. Joan Didion
Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth. Paula Danziger
I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end. Flann O'Brien
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian. Steve Martin
Edgar Rice Burroughs quote: "I got this story from someone who had no business in the..."
I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories. That smile us on to tell delightful stories. John Keats
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it..."
People fall so in love with their pain, they can't leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves. Chuck Palahniuk
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo. Find new ways to see. Never expect a silver bullet. Get your hands dirty. Listen with empathy and overcommunicate with transparency. Tell your story, refusing to let others define you. Use authentic experiences to inspire. Stick to your values, they are your foundation. Hold people accountable, but give them the tools to succeed. Make the tough choices; it's how you execute that counts.... Howard Schultz
All the boys were grown up and done for by this time; so it is scarcely worth while saying anything more about them. You may see the twins and Nibs and Curly any day going to an office, each carrying a little bag and an umbrella. Michael is an engine driver. Slightly married a lady of title, and so he became a lord. You see that judge in a wig coming out at the iron door? That used to be Tootles. The bearded man who doesn't know any story to tell his children was once John. J. M. Barrie
People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future. Chuck Palahniuk
..and better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation. Paulo Coelho
This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty ofspace on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome. Vladimir Nabokov
And here it is that I miss my Watson. By cunning questions and ejaculations of wonder he could elevate my simple art, which is but systematized common sense, into a prodigy. When I tell my own story I have no such aid. Arthur Conan Doyle
Rhonda Byrne quote: "Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of..."
Start telling the story of your amazing life, and the law of attraction must make sure you receive it! Rhonda Byrne

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