Top 100 Story To Tell Quotes
#1. Dumb luck brought on the move from business to acting. I had moved to New York when I was 23, in the year 2000. On a lark, I went to audition for a soap opera. I thought, 'Hey, this will be a really fun story to tell my grandkids one day, that I auditioned for a soap!'
Teddy Sears
#2. I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.
Solange Knowles
#3. I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.
Ruth Reichl
#4. Each song had a story to tell, each song was a small, but significant tale.
Lindy Zart
#5. I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.
Dan Wells
#6. In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.
Natalie Goldberg
#8. Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell.
Marty Rubin
#9. Your current condition is not your destiny. It is a temporary situation that we all have to pass through in our journey of life. Everybody has a story to tell.
Osunsakin Adewale
#10. I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
Lesli Linka Glatter
#11. Every writer has only one story to tell, and he has to find a way of telling it until the meaning becomes clearer and clearer, until the story becomes at once more narrow and larger, more and more precise, more and more reverberating.
James Baldwin
#12. I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. But I have done my best to make it tell a truthful story.
Tobias Wolff
#13. I do all the things that singer-songwriters do. I introduce the songs, I have a story to tell about everything all the time - I cannot be on stage and have something on my mind without telling the audience. I'm super emotional and expressive and vulnerable in that moment.
India.Arie
#14. Just goes to show, everyone really does have a story to tell. And most people, at least in my experience, are a little more noble than they think they are.
R.J. Palacio
#15. Accordingly, the one respect in which I depart from my younger self is that I now regard those people who have little or no story to tell themselves as terribly fortunate.
Lionel Shriver
#16. It wasn't merely a walk; it was a journey. Behind every opened or closed door, there was a story to tell.
Dhari Buyabes
#17. I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.
Amy Hempel
#18. Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
Jack Valenti
#20. My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.
Gloria Swanson
#21. I believe in heaven more than hell, lessons more than jail.
In the ghetto, let love prevail with a story to tell.
My eyes see the glory, and well,
The world waiting for me to yell, "I Have A Dream!"
Common
#22. Tabby ignored his thanks. "Just passin' through, eh?" he mewed. "I'll bet you've a story to tell. Why not stay awhile an' share it wi' me?" He stood up and braced himself, ready to jump down into the clearing.
Erin Hunter
#23. The best story to tell your kids is that of your own family.
Lauren Machta
#25. Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures
Gregory Crewdson
#26. I thought about the guy in the truck, the focus in his expression, and I felt like I already knew enough of the story to tell it to somebody else maybe better than either of its major players could.
John Darnielle
#27. The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
Chris Cleave
#28. Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
Patrick Ness
#29. This world is not one color or culture. Everybody has a story. To tell that story or see that story reflected through art is extremely valuable to the community. The arts belong to everyone and our work should reflect that diversity.
Jesse L. Martin
#31. Everyone has a story to tell, regardless of the ending!
Abhijit Haldar
#32. Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn't mean you have to agree. Just because other people say that something is hopeless or crazy or broken to pieces doesn't mean it is. We decide what story to tell ourselves.
Ryan Holiday
#33. If I lived through this day, nay this adventure, I would have one heck of a story to tell when I returned home. If I ever went home again.
Rae Z. Ryans
#34. On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.
Kathryn Stockett
#36. Everyone in life has a story to tell, and sometimes there are things in our past we spend our lives running from. This book is dedicated to those who have retired their running shoes and found a piece of happiness they can call home.
Dannika Dark
#38. To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more than a minor character in somebody else's tale, it means that you are truly dead.
Daniel Mendelsohn
#39. I wake up in the morning and I still have a passion for what I do, and I'll be doing it when I'm 105, I'll be scribbling away. If it was 100 years ago I'd be sitting by the campfire, saying, "Have I got a story to tell you."
Jackie Collins
#41. 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
#42. Every part of the country has its story to tell, so I'm always looking for the next place to be.
Tracie Peterson
#45. The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
Ben Okri
#46. This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal.
Joel Salatin
#47. I want to write more, because I think I've got a story to tell.
Teri Garr
#48. Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.
Tom Stoppard
#49. Josh Hanagarne has an astonishing story to tell, and he does so with insight, humor, grace, and wonder. All human beings suffer and struggle. Through the lens of his own miraculous experiences, Mr. Hanagarne illuminates the path to joy and the infinite possibilities of transcendence.
Melanie Rae Thon
#50. Every heart has a unique story to tell. We just need a mind to listen.
Debasish Mridha
#51. When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#52. There is no one like you on this planet. Not everyone may have the gift of being a good writer, but each one of us has a story to tell.
K.J. Kilton
#53. Everybody has their story to tell.
Alan Moore
#54. In the end, each of us has only one story to tell. It takes a lifetime to live that story but sometimes less than an hour to tell it. The
Jonathan Carroll
#55. People tend to over react on situations to have a bigger and better story to tell, thus receiving more attention.
Johan Coetzer
#56. The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of the words. A girl with a story to tell.
Jay Kristoff
#57. Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.
Savi Sharma
#58. If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
Carolyn Maloney
#59. In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen.
Greg McVicker
#60. I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.
Julie Schumacher
#61. One of the great things about TV is the story to tell can be very internal and really character-based.
Mitchell Hurwitz
#62. When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.
J. A. Jance
#63. I believe that everyone has a story to tell. The problem that is inherent to most aspiring authors is that they struggle with getting the story from their head to the page.
Steve C. Roberts
#64. In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#65. You may have heard the news that the independent bookstore is dead, that books are dead, that maybe even reading is dead - to which I say, Pull up a chair, friend. I have a story to tell.
Ann Patchett
#66. It's important to teach our children their heritage. Who are your ancestors? What were their traditions? Each of us has a story to tell. If these stories are unwritten, then how are your children going to know of their parentage?
Linda Weaver Clarke
#67. You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
Julian Seifter
#68. People have taught me what most doctors don't learn, in other words, when somebody does better than expected, the doctor will tell them they're doing very well and to keep it up. I learned to say, "You didn't die when you were supposed to so what's going on?", and they always had a story to tell me.
Bernie Siegel
#69. In the end there won't even be a story to tell. A woman will give birth to her baby, and she will whisper, "Look. Look at our world. Isn't it beautiful?"
And we will be their ghosts.
Mikaela Everett
#70. Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.
Philip Roth
#71. Listen, girl," Aelius sniffed. "The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave their marks on us. I can see it in you, sure as I see it in me. You're a daughter of words. A girl with a story to tell.
Jay Kristoff
#72. Every person you meet has a lesson to teach, a story to tell and a dream to share.
Robin Sharma
#73. Odors have their own story to tell and the secret is to block them out after they're no longer relevant.
Patricia Cornwell
#74. Although, we might want to come up with a different story to tell our children. I don't think 'Father ravished Mummy against a wall so he had to marry her' is exactly the kind of lesson in courtship we want to impart.
Monica McCarty
#75. In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?"
I stood and removed his shirt. "Then they'll have a good story to tell."
"Good?" He adopted the pretense of being offended.
"Prove me wrong.
Maria V. Snyder
#76. I always loved it when I had a story to tell her, because her attention was complete and felt like sunlight.
Robert B. Parker
#77. She looked over at him, her eyes warm. "Your face has a story to tell."
Mouth quirking, Roan growled, "It's a top-secret face, Darlin'.
Lindsay McKenna
#78. Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I'm telling my story as a political document.
Larry Kramer
#79. Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
Anthony Trollope
#80. Each drop that fell,
had a story to tell.
each smile that curved,
said a million words.
(Poem: Our Existence, Book: Ginger and Honey)
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#81. It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.
Clive Standen
#82. I have said before that I'm not a a "curist" and I'm not an "ablist" but a "neutral" because I believe everyone has a story to tell without going to unhealthy extremes if we listened with our hearts we would learn about each others experiences.
Paul Isaacs
#83. Everyone has a story to tell...Tell me yours and I'll tell you mine.
Mimi Tulane
#85. I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell.
Simon Schama
#86. If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
Linda Ronstadt
#87. Once upon a time there was a person whose life was so good there was no story to tell about it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#88. For me, it doesn't matter whether it's a comedy, a Western or horror. As long as you've got a good story to tell, the genre almost doesn't matter. As an actor playing the role, it's all rooted in reality.
Patrick Wilson
#89. I have a story to tell to anyone who is willing to listen.
Samy Dib
#90. I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.
Joshua Michael Stern
#91. If you always start with the worst hand, you never have a bad-beat story to tell.
Chuck Thompson
#92. I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
Steven Spielberg
#93. Everyone has degrees of madness in them, everyone has a story to tell.
Bryony Gordon
#94. If we have no story to tell, no need to shout out and proclaim the acts of God, then are we are really walking in relationship with God?
Gareth J. Goossen
#95. You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something about voice, about urgency, about actually having a story to tell.
Lorin Stein
#97. You can't ask for much more than that - a good woman and a story to tell.
David Levithan
#98. But hey, at least we'll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I'm a psychiatrist's wet dream.
Kendare Blake
#100. You can't help but be creative, we all are unique beings and have a unique story to tell from different walks of life.
Bebe
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