Top 100 Quotes About My Life Story

#1. I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.

Jack Nicklaus

#2. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.

Adriana Locke

#3. At this stage of my life, I had reached the conclusion that I would never be the protagonist of any story. The only thing I could hope for was to make an appearance in somebody else's.

Cesar Aira

#4. My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

Steve Maraboli

#5. My God, is this a date?" Jeff had asked when I asked if I could bring her along.
"I don't know," I said. "She might still be happily lesbian.

Jefferson Bass

#6. I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Ayn Rand

#7. Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

Jim Woodring

#8. I've never been a believer in fate. I like to think I'm in control, that my life hasn't been plotted out ahead of time. Sometimes all it takes is one wild thought, one brave decision to change everything. This must be one of those times.

Kyle Richardson

#9. You're my story,
you're my poetry,
you're my flower
you're my deep driving desire.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

Hideaki Anno

#11. I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Dolly Parton

#12. I always wanted to be a hero
to sacrifice my life in a big way one time
and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal.

Sally Clarkson

#13. There is a story I always tell my students ... when I came for the 1st time to the US. I didn't speak English (Only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word "exit" which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said :"No wonder Americans are winners ,every door they open leads to success

Pablo

#14. So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

George J. Mitchell

#15. Wish my life were inside a book
So I could turn to the ending,
See if it is a love story
Or a gothic disaster.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

#16. 'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

Cameron Mackintosh

#18. You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something I'm currently going through,' or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, 'Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now.' That's my hope.

Pegi Young

#19. Because of an instability at my own core, it comforts me to live, fixed, within a story. If reading is our consolation for having been allotted only one life, I find that writing oneself into a fictional world is even more comforting.

Norman Lock

#20. I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

Friedrich St. Florian

#21. Several died the day the bomb was dropped. Some lived six months after the explosion but died anyway. They were all lost. It was so long ago, young man. To you it is a history story. To me it is my life.

Joseph G. Peterson

#22. On some level, every story draws something from life experiences. Most of the time, it's just a matter of me pulling bits and pieces of my own past to help give characters or settings a little more life.

Cullen Bunn

#23. Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Ray Bradbury

#24. I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story.

Patti Smith

#25. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.

Jon Gordon

#26. Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

Paul Roberts

#27. My friends have made the story of my life.

Helen Keller

#28. Facing another day, with ordinary callings to ordinary people all around us is much more difficult than chasing my own dreams that I have envisioned for the grand story of my life.

Michael S. Horton

#29. What are you thinking about?"
"Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.

Maggie Stiefvater

#30. Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.

Tia Giacalone

#31. Whatever you do, you'll never kill my love. I love you! It's only now that I realize I can't imagine my life without you

Natalie Ansard

#32. I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

Nicole Jordan

#33. Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life's purpose - the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

Gino Bartali

#34. I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

George Brett

#35. Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

Melissa Rosenberg

#36. I can't loose you...you are the whole reason for everything in my life. Please don't do this!

T.K. Chapin

#37. But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

Jimmy Connors

#38. Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.

Kimberly Willis Holt

#39. The story of my life is profoundly unclear. It is a rock-and-roll story and, at the same time, a story of my walk with Christ. The two are melded together in ways both unpredictable and unsure.

Scott Stapp

#40. As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Jodie Foster

#41. Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor.

Sally Armstrong

#42. All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged
after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#43. In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

Rosemary Mahoney

#44. It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time, so it wasn't just my dad's story, it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.

Vanessa Kerry

#45. I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out.

George Clooney

#46. This is my life ... my story ... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make.

Steve Maraboli

#47. The story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.

Ann Patchett

#48. And just what do these words of punches and feints write down? The story of my family.

Davide Enia

#49. I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

#50. My life story is structured by reckless reenactments of panic and flight.

Merri Lisa Johnson

#51. I write for the kid in me ... Often when I'm working on a story, I'll find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where they've taken the story. It's as if they have a life all their own. What I do is create them and then let them go on to entertain me ...

Elvira Woodruff

#52. You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#53. 'Comfort Me with Apples' is a love story, or better, two love stories. And since it deals with a later period in my life, most of the people who appear in it are living.

Ruth Reichl

#54. There in the dim light, staring at the shadow on the wall, I poured out the story of my life. ( ... ) How nothing touched me. And I touched nothing. How I'd lost track of what mattered. How I worked like a fool for things that didn't. How it didn't make a difference either way.

Haruki Murakami

#55. My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending story. My love with you is never-ending

M. Christina White

#56. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Raquel Cepeda

#57. To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.

Imelda Staunton

#58. There is Story Behind every Smile and You Are My Favorite Chapter!!

Saima

#59. The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

Greta Garbo

#60. My inner voice told me at that point,
"you shouldn't be caring about her, just move on! You have to improve your life and live apart from her"

But my absurd heart was pleading,
"you love her, you idiot. She is your life sphere, one more try at least for the sake of kindness.

Qalandar Nawaz

#61. I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Dorothy Allison

#62. My hope is that you will see this book for what it is...a conversation about the core questions that call us into humanity. Who am I? What am I? Who created me? What is my purpose? This is the story about the journey through the mysteries that make up the depths of life.

Julia J. Gibbs

#63. I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my way; I've gotten clean my way; And I'm still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.

Slash

#64. Here's my struggle-here's my story. Don't feel sorry for me. Even if I had the chance, I wouldn't change a thing.

Jean Sharon Abbott

#65. Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story

Ashleigh Brilliant

#66. One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.

Lex Luger

#67. In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

Heather Graham

#68. I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

Max Beckmann

#69. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#70. I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

Philip Kerr

#71. I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

Stephen King

#72. In the story of my life, that's where you cracked the spine of the book. The mark is there, forever tattooed on my narrative and I couldn't be happier.

Cara Lynn Shultz

#73. If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

Charlize Theron

#74. I got hit in the fucking head with the medicine ball.

Adele Levine

#75. If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

Louise Erdrich

#76. Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

Ace Antonio Hall

#77. Cancer was nothing more than a chapter in my life's story. It would never be my life's story.

Robin Roberts

#78. My favorite part is being engaged with somebody's story and life, and getting a laugh with people I have a tremendous amount of respect for or not, and being challenged by the immediacy of conversation.

Marc Maron

#79. I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#80. While some guys get too bulky with muscles and others too ropey, Gray is like my own personal Goldilocks story come to life because he is just right, lean yet strong, cut yet smooth.

Kristen Callihan

#81. 'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Will Chase

#82. I do like playing the darker side of life but as much as the lighter side as well. They all resonate out of the same place, which is that everyone has a story to tell. Depending on their upbringing and their history, it determines who they are as an adult. My job is to take the role from there.

Michael Eklund

#83. If I want a long boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

Jerry Seinfeld

#84. I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

Oscar Levant

#85. While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

Bill De Blasio

#86. For the first time in a long time I've met a man that makes my heart want to stay.

Nikki Rowe

#87. My dad came over to the house ... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children ... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story.

Bill Cosby

#88. My favorite quote...from Alfred Hitchcock, of all people...

"A great story is life with the dull parts taken out.

Richard W. Perhacs

#89. Best day of my life was January 9, 1997. I was eight years old and my mom and I went to the zoo on a class trip. I liked the bears. She liked the monkeys. Best day ever. End of story.

John Green

#90. About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#91. Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#92. I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

Angela Sidney

#93. You could be with someone and still feel alone because you were never fully connected to them. Story of my life.

Beth Watson

#94. My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

Pat Conroy

#95. I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Salman Rushdie

#96. My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Sidney Poitier

#97. Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

Walter Dean Myers

#98. My mom thinks I'm the heroine in every book I write ... so I'm a demon possessed, call girl, vampire killing, elfin college student who likes to have sex in elevators.
Story of my life ...

H.M. Ward

#99. I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.

Ramez Naam

#100. I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life ...

Mordecai Richler

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