Top 100 My Story Quotes
#1. Logic: yes, where is logic? Where is it, for instance, in the next moment of my story?
Julian Barnes
#2. You share with people who've earned the right to hear your story ... You have to earn the right to hear my story. It's an honor to hold space for me when I'm in shame.
Brene Brown
#3. I wrote the chorus specifically for 'Same Love' as a narration of my story. I decided to release 'She Keeps Me Warm' as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more that needed to be said.
Mary Lambert
#4. In my story, Ashley was willing to be in my darkness with me. She wasn't there as my helper or to fix me; she was just with me - as an equal - holding my hand as I waded through my feelings.
Brene Brown
#5. This is the same power that I feel propelling me forward into the next phase of my life. God saved my soul and spared my life for a reason: He left me to tell my story to others and show as many people as possible the healing power of His love and forgiveness.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#6. I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.
Brooke Burns
#7. I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.
Rodney King
#8. I came to America, and I made good. It's an old story, but it hasn't been told in a long time. Usually, it's, 'I'm an immigrant, I came here and got persecuted.' My story is I came here, I worked hard, and it worked out all right. So it's still available.
Craig Ferguson
#9. The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, 'If I'm going to come out with this, I'm going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can't just be my story.'
Jose Antonio Vargas
#10. A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
Natasha Trethewey
#11. Regret' implies a freely chosen, but erroneous, action; free will plays no part in my story.
David Mitchell
#12. I keep an elaborate calendar for my characters detailing on which dates everything happens. I'm constantly revising this as I go along. It gives me the freedom to intricately plot my story, knowing it will at least hold up on a timeline.
Maria Semple
#13. I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the truth. I gotta stand up for what's right. Every great person and true soldier has a great story to tell and this is a part of my story.
Trae Tha Truth
#14. So if my story ends with no knight in shining armor in sight, I'm okay with it because I don't need one to save me.
I have myself.
And that's good enough for me.
Mia Asher
#15. when I am in a foreign city and feel even the slightest bit disoriented, I can feel the panic of that day on the Hong Kong street begin to rise in my chest. My story of being lost ended quickly and happily, but it still haunts me.
Katherine Paterson
#16. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.
J. Raymond
#17. Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.
Daniel Taylor
#18. Sometimes I wake up and think I wish id never told the world my story but I know good comes from it
Demi Lovato
#19. Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born,
Elizabeth Warren
#20. I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.
Ben Vereen
#21. How blindly the world reads a man's mien! That I wear a smile does not mean I am in my comfort zone. I am only telling my challenges that I can't be distracted from the beautiful ending of my story.
Bayode Ojo
#22. Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.
Bella Thorne
#23. That's my story...
I decided to share it with you all guys... like or don't... I don't give a fuck.
Deyth Banger
#24. I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.
Kat Von D.
#26. I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.
George Saunders
#27. My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you're down, that doesn't mean you're down forever. You never let up.
Chris Brown
#28. I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few hours of a long eternity, become so worrisome to me.
Mary Shelley
#29. I would spend my life on the road logging hundreds of thousands of miles and my story was always the same. . . man comes to town, detonates; man leaves town and drives off into the evening; fade to black. Just the way I like it.
Bruce Springsteen
#30. And now it is time for my story to end, because we have finally reached the beginning.
Caroline Flohr
#31. I sat in a room the color of egg yolk for two hours while the officer got my story down. The whole time I was thinking about Natalie going to autopsy, and how I would like to sneak in and put a fresh Band-Aid on her knee.
Gillian Flynn
#32. Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.
Haile Gerima
#33. I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead.
Wendell Berry
#34. I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.
David Gray
#35. Perfect is highly overrated. I'm a character in my story, going through the chapters of my life as if it was written by an imaginary person, when I should be the author. - Elle
Vi Keeland
#36. People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that ... it's not my story.
Astrid Berges-Frisbey
#37. So many people had been asking me to write an autobiography, or threatening to write my biography without any input from me, that I thought I'd better tell my story before other people told it for me.
Michael Palin
#38. You said you wanted my story? Well, I was swallowed by a hippopotamus. Except I didn't go into the hippo, I ended up in a tree. Then I sort of wandered here.
Brandon Mull
#39. Meeting people at my fertility doctor's office who are going through the same things I'm going through, I thought, 'Why not share my story?' It's been really emotional.
Kim Kardashian
#41. If I can tell my story, and help anybody else in the interim, then that's icing on the cake.
Jeff Conaway
#42. I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.
Malala Yousafzai
#43. Listen to my story and everything will come out true
Bessie Smith
#44. My story - my own personal story - ended before my writing began. Storytelling has only ever been a way of filling in the time since everything finished.
Diane Setterfield
#45. I wanted to, you know, get my story out in the world, which, it turns out, is a very misguided notion.
John Green
#46. The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
Clara Hughes
#47. The world may never know and Jesse may never care. But when my world falls apart like it always does, someone will know my story.
-Danny
Roxanne Greening
#48. WELCOME to my bookamabob!
Buckle your cravat and prepare
for have your whiskers quiver.
My story of struggles, successes and
sergei is the greatest, most thrillsy book ever written by a meerkat in the bath...
Aleksandr Orlov
#49. Sometimes, when I tell folk my story, they ask why I did not run away from the pagans, why I did not escape southward into the lands where the Danes did not yet rule, but it never occurred to me to try. I was happy, I was alive, I was with Ragnar, and it was enough.
Bernard Cornwell
#51. I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest ... la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la ...
Paul Simon
#52. I hope that my story, I hope that my life is ... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.
Iyanla Vanzant
#53. Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.
Liane Balaban
#54. I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
Elif Safak
#55. If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something.
Mari Serebrov
#56. I am a story as well as a happening, and I want my story to be known,
Michael Morpurgo
#57. There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.
Jeanette Winterson
#58. I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.
Santosh Kalwar
#59. my story is that more than sex or death or the remote possibility of God, there was one thing more fundamental to my way of being in the world than any other, and that was the all-pervading influence of a mother; and not just her influence, but her presence and her love.
Michael Harding
#60. There are a lot of parallels to the 'Sparkle' story and my story.
Jordin Sparks
#61. I've been bullied my whole life, whether it was about my peers or comments on Instagram or Twitter, whatever. And I never talked about my story, really. I feel like I've kind of accepted it because I realized that just comes with the territory.
Kylie Jenner
#62. The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.
Lupe Fiasco
#63. You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.
Adam Oates
#64. I appreciate you more because of the road I've traveled. My story brought me to you, and I wouldn't revise a word of my past if it led me any where but to your door.
Aaron Polson
#65. Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, and they look at my story and they see a person, African-American or not, they see something that they can relate to.
Cam Newton
#66. To those of you who have lost your way, may my story serve as a reminder that life is a journey. The lessons we learn along the way are not for our sake alone. We are obligated to share them
Nancy B. Brewer
#67. Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying
shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.
Peter S. Beagle
#68. An ending to my story," he said. "My story's ended ten times already, and yet it never stops. The end keeps coming for me, and yet it takes everyone else. Orphans, friends, commanding officers, I outlast them all.
Adam Johnson
#69. I'm not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all.
Scott Lynch
#70. Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety.
At any rate that afforded me some comfort.
Milan Kundera
#71. Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron.
Jay-Z
#72. When I left the Senate in 1979, there were several publishers who had approached me about writing an autobiography, and I knew that politicians write books for many reasons, but at that time, I just thought I wasn't ready and my story wasn't over, and I knew I had a new life ahead of me.
Edward Brooke
#73. I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right.
Louise Woodward
#74. I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
Joyce Maynard
#76. I always said that I want to write a book about success and my story and my brand and everything that goes with it, as a woman, as a leader, as someone who has stepped up to the plate and who opens the door for the rest of the women from the Middle East.
Reem Acra
#77. It's a good thing you're not my Story Weaver. You're easily distracted by the pattern of the cloth and can't see the quality of the threads." "Well
Maria V. Snyder
#78. No, it was not the money that I valued - what I wanted was to make all this mob of Heintzes, hotel proprietors, and fine ladies of Baden talk about me, recount my story, wonder at me, extol my doings, and worship my winnings.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#79. And this is where I, the narrator, tell you that it's my story and I'll do as I please. You can close the book at any time, you know.
K.L. Montgomery
#80. And when I finished my story, Nesta merely stared at me for a long while before asking me to teach her how to paint.
Sarah J. Maas
#81. With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story.
Teri Hatcher
#82. The song "No Fairy Tale" tells my story. Going through the hard things leads to a richer life than just trying to make everything perfect, or worse, pretending things are good when they don't feel right. I've done that more than enough times.
Lisa Loeb
#83. And, well, that's my story," I said. "I'm sorry that it's so, you know. Retarded.
David Wong
#84. This is my story. I don't know where I'm going, but I know I'm going somewhere beautiful, and I know I'm on my way ...
It's been a beautiful adventure. It always will be.
Charlotte Eriksson
#85. Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'
Maria Sharapova
#86. Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It's the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it's like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham)
Ally Condie
#87. So what's your story?" Ryan asks.
Avery looks up at him, hand still in the water. "My story?"
"Yeah. Everybody has at least one.
David Levithan
#88. The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story ...
Maya Angelou
#89. From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is.
Jeremy Lin
#90. Shortly after we were in bed I began my story, but made it so absurd, so long, and so tiresome, that, as my intention was, I sent her to sleep, and should have gone to sleep myself - but dark plots are ever wakeful. ("The Story of Prince Barkiarokh")
William Beckford
#91. You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Stephen King
#92. The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.
Byron Katie
#93. Painting and happiness. I would like my dear readers who have given close attention to my story and my fate to bear these two things in mind, as they are the genesis of my world.
Orhan Pamuk
#94. It is my pen, too. With it, I write my story, again and again, in the walls. So I don't forget. So it becomes real.
Lauren Oliver
#95. I need to keep my story count high. I'm trying to get as many stories in my hour as is humanly possible. We're telling more stories in our hour than any national newscast has in the history of this business, I think.
Shepard Smith
#96. My heart told me incontrovertibly that neither gender could go far without the other. So, in my story, neither the woman nor the man can get free without the other.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#97. My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.
Misty Copeland
#98. You're it. The one. The start. The finish. You are how my story ends.
Belle Aurora
#99. That is, so to speak, my own story. If I had a wish, I would wish that the sounds of the turning pages of my story after this encounter would resound like the sound of footsteps.
Sorata Akizuki
#100. But I'd better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn't come any sooner.
Camilo Jose Cela Conde
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