Retell Quotes

#1. Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

Elizabeth Warren

#2. So this is my cue of where to leave you. Now it's your story to retell and pass on. Because an idea is only relevant if it's being thought upon. So remember, never surrender.'Cause the unrelenting constancy of love and hope will rescue and restore from any scope.

Thomas Dutton

#3. Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Dennis R. Miller

#4. In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.

Sam Keen

#5. To keep a story on a shelf or to remember then retell it means that it will be more likely to exist to those who come after we have gone.

Ander Monson

#6. Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.

Stephen R. Prothero

#7. Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless.

Salman Rushdie

#8. As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#9. History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

Hilary Mantel

#10. It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.

John Hawkes

#11. We retell our favorite stories. That's what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite. That's how you can break new ground: by rethinking something that's already been done.

Joel Kinnaman

#12. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representational or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#13. Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it...and change it as time changes...cannot think new thoughts.

Linda Mornell

#14. Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

Louisa May Alcott

#15. In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

Tullian Tchividjian

#16. Being a writer isn't about writing what you want or what you're comfortable with. It's about having a unique awareness and ability to faithfully retell the stories of others.

P. Anastasia

#17. Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

Markus Zusak

#18. How does one say something new and not retell?

Dejan Stojanovic

#19. Lyall's face went deadpan as he relayed the details, as those who are tortured or raped will become when they retell the pattern of abuse

Gail Carriger

#20. There are a lot of wrong reasons to do a remake, but there are some good ones. I think it's human nature, in many ways, to retell our favorite stories. We do it in the theater, all the time. I've seen four different Hamlets, and every one has given me something different.

Joel Kinnaman

#21. Many of us become walking self-caricatures at a certain point, and politicians can be particularly vulnerable, especially those who have maneuvered their very public lives as conspicuously as McCain. They tell and retell the same stories; things get musty. They engage in a lot of self-mythologizing,

Mark Leibovich

#22. As happens with all miracles, once life goes on, those who believe retell them with wonder. Those who do not, do not.

Mitch Albom

#23. Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Kate Forsyth

#24. People forgot; it was in the nature of people to forget, to blur boundaries, to retell stories to come out the way they wanted them to come out, to remember things as how they ought to be instead of how they were.

Robin McKinley

#25. The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.

Malik Bendjelloul

#26. Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

Terry Jones

#27. I had always wanted to retell a Shakespeare play. It was an ambition from college days. But in order to be able to do it ... the circumstances in my life didn't come together for a long time.

Chris Adrian

#28. As EP, survivors have been unable to create a complete personal story and are unable to share the original experience verbally and socially. They are stuck in the traumatic experience where they relive rather than retell their terror.

Onno Van Der Hart

#29. It is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing ...

Galway Kinnell

#30. One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#31. All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

Joseph Conrad

#32. Why didn't you tell us you were the Alexander Black who can stand atop a cantering horse and shoot a hole through a plum at a hundred paces?"
With a snort, Alec jerked his gaze away. "More like a cantaloupe. The thing shrinks with every retelling. Soon they'll have me shooting at a mustard seed.

Sabrina Jeffries