Stories Quotes

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

If you want to understand your partner, you have to listen to their life stories, where they came from, their life experiences. You can't be selfish. You've got to realize the other person has needs just as important and as valuable as mine.

There are so many emotional stories in our lives that the cameras missed outside of the competition, which viewers never got to see. This online 'scrap book' gives us a chance to share the entire journey leading up to, and during the Games to really illustrate the ups and downs an athlete and their mom's experience along the road to becoming a U.S. Olympian.

They bring their own thought to the table. They will sit and talk with each other and read stories.

God made man because he loves stories.

We still tell Jonathan stories. It's not a taboo subject. But there are times it's very intense. We go back to that night (we were notified of his death), and it's, wow, still very vivid and I suspect it always will be.

You know you've made it when people start making up fantastic stories about you.

A true friend laughs at your stories even when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your troubles even when they're not so bad.

Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You can tell them straight, or you can add your own twists. If it's a story kids already know, they'll try to correct you if you stray, but that's part of the fun. You can make each story your own.

This pattern (of gender imbalance) may be teaching girls and boys that the lives of males and their stories are more important and valuable than those of females.

The stories were so sad, terrifying and tragic: A Thai woman who had helped us escape had turned around to get her children, but they had been swept out to sea; an American-Irish couple who had spent the past 15 years of their lives on their sailboat had watched their boat and all their belongings get smashed.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Derision, cynicism, prejudice, stereotyping and hunger for stories of failure than of success will be the undoing of democratic progress on the continent.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.