I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or es...
Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating lies, untold violence. Bold, brash stories about reclaiming our bodies and changing the world.
God has given us all our unique story. It's not one that flows easily or pretty, but the story is ours! Find it and treasure it...
But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers ...
I watched the people passing below, each of them a story, each story part of somebody else's, all of it connected to the big story of the world. People weren't islands, so far as I was concerned. How could they be, when their stories kept getting tan...
To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd t...
I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewrit...
If our story isn’t serving us, negatively impacts our families, our communities, or our organizations, we might just have to find a way to “StoryJack” the story, transforming it, and creating a new story that we resonate with so that we can “...
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not m...
Atari is a very sad story.
I long to play a judge. I long to play a lesbian woman. I long to play a councilman, someone with some chutzpah.
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
I had a dream about you. You said you wanted to grow your hair long, and I wondered how long long is. I thought the Nile river is long, so that’s probably what you meant. I offered to build a Pyramid on your shoulder, and you offered me tax exempt ...
Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.
And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.
Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.
The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story.
Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.
Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates.
