Tells A Story Quotes

#1. Stephen Schlesinger's Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live. Never has a book been more relevant to present dangers and future hopes.

James Chace

#2. I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

John Boyega

#3. Could it be that Cania isn't the ultimate prep school, isn't the sure way into the Ivy League? As if to solidify my suspicion, a guy with emo eyeliner tells his ill-fated story.

Anonymous

#4. To hear both critics and defenders talk about the fitness of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, you'd think the most successful Supreme Court justices had been warm, collegial consensus-builders. But history tells a different story.

Noah Feldman

#5. Moments ... there are always moments where a decision has to be made. In mortal life there is always a choice. One road or another? The ultimate choose your own adventure story. In the clans, there is only one option, and that is to do whatever your clan's oracle tells you to do.

Kim Cormack

#6. I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

David Byrne

#7. It's important that the way you dress tells a story and reveals something about you and your philosophy.

Lykke Li

#8. People like to come up to me and tell me that I've got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren't just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system.

CM Punk

#9. Everyone in our town has a story
but it's not the one he tells himself. Its author has a thousand eyes, a thousand ears, and five hundred pens that never stop scribbling.

Carsten Jensen

#10. She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.

Elfriede Jelinek

#11. In every song there should be a beauty spoken which tells a different story to each person who hears it.

E.D. Phillips

#12. For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.

Alden Ehrenreich

#13. Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story.

E. M. Forster

#14. Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.

Stephen Hopkins

#15. Vomiting isn't bad either, take note. It is, in certain more obvious respects, a show of force. I have always liked this story 'A man holding with one hand to a one-way sign is vomiting into the gutter, another man goes past near him and tells him: "If you only knew how much I agree with you.

Jean Fremon

#16. No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.' The Commandant said it for me.
'Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it ...

Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#17. It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a journey from an African homeland to wherever you live.

Spencer Wells

#18. If you aren't a fisher you'll see many things, but the river, except where it is ridden by waterfowl or waded by moose, will rarely enter your thoughts, much less stimulate your spirit. It's different if you fish. The surface of the water tells a story ...

Paul Schullery

#19. Everything I do and say tells a story of who I am serving. If I am acting out of anger and spite, I am serving the father of darkness and spreading his darkness. If I am honoring to the Lord with my actions, I am serving to further the name of Jesus and spreading His light.

Lysa TerKeurst

#20. I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

B.B. King

#21. A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

Laura Allen

#23. No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

Dan Scanlon

#24. When death tells a story yo really have to listen

Markus Zusak

#25. Bear in Mind ... that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversary's tale is told.

Sam Houston

#26. A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story

Enrique De Heriz

#27. Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story ... But together is raw honesty.

Nikki Sixx

#28. I've seen my grandmothers grow old and they are so beautiful, every wrinkle in their face tells a story. I want to feel that in 30 years. I would always choose that kind of beauty over that comes from having too much done to yourself.

Penelope Cruz

#29. Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

Seth Godin

#30. The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Rebecca West

#31. Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'

Nawal El Saadawi

#32. The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Howard Nemerov

#33. I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

Salman Rushdie

#34. On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record on Earth, however, tells a very different story.

Simon Conway Morris

#35. 'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.

Michael Imperioli

#36. I don't like the idea that the first preparation when you start to design your building has to put your label. I think this is not fair. It's not fair to the building or to the people, to the client, because every building tells a different story.

Renzo Piano

#37. A life of feminine submission, of 'contemplative purity,' is a life of silence, a life that has no pen and no story, while a life of female rebellion, of 'significant action,' is a life that must be silenced, a life whose monstrous pen tells a terrible story.

Sandra M. Gilbert

#38. They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person.

Brownell Landrum

#39. A departure from the movie with Michael J. Fox, 'Teen Wolf' tells the story of how a group of angsty teens deal with werewolves, their supernatural kin and the world of trouble that comes with it, all while trying to still live their lives.

Keahu Kahuanui

#40. From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

Craig Scott

#41. When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

Candice Millard

#42. Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.

Kenneth R. Miller

#43. Every work of art tells a story.

A.D. Posey

#44. The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema ...

Derek Jarman

#45. There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

Pat Sajak

#46. Every picture tells a story. But sometimes it's hard to know what story is actually being told.

Anastasia Hollings

#47. All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. But if we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us- we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don't understand.

Stephen Grosz

#48. when a victim tells her story and people respond with You-should-have-this or You-should-never-have-that, they are often adding to the victimization.

Gavin De Becker

#49. Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

John Ruskin

#50. I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.

David Sedaris

#51. marketing tells one story about the company, usually connected to corporate strategy at the senior level, while the products tell several stories, depending on a product manager's vision of his or her own strategy.

Alex Bogusky

#52. Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

Saul Bass

#53. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY

Eugene H. Peterson

#54. The story tells that water has a consciousness, that it carries in its memory everything that's ever happened in this world, from the time before humans until this moment, which draws itself in its memory even as it passes.

Emmi Itaranta

#55. Thirty chapters of good deeds never tells you a whole man's story.

Brian K. Vaughan

#56. When the song is over, she bows and I clap. I wonder how come she seems so brave. There is no part of her she hides. Lakeisha sits with me now on the bed and says,"Wanna hear a story?" I don't have to say yes before she tells me .

Heidi W. Durrow

#57. 'First Light' is nonfiction, a true story about astronomers who are looking for light coming from the edge of the universe. It tells how science is really done - and science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize.

Richard Preston

#58. A good tattoo always has a story that runs deeper than the skin, and Inked tells that story.

Tara Dakides

#59. That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

Pete McCarthy

#60. Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

Liu Cixin

#61. If the right person tells a story, I guess it doesn't matter how many times you've heard it. Your heart still hears it brand new

Natalie Lloyd

#62. there is no story where two girls
get a happy ending. she tells me fine, we'll write it ourselves

Topaz Winters

#63. She tells me life is a story. We can make it a Harlequin romance, a mistery, a memoir. We can make it pamphlet-size or an ongoing series.
"I want mine to be exceptional", she says.

Katie Kacvinsky

#64. If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right.
If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong.

Neil Gaiman

#65. Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.

Lore Segal

#66. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

Rob Sheffield

#67. Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

A.S.A Harrison

#68. A memoir emerges from facts and dreams, and tells the story we have almost forgotten.

by Mary Stobie

Mary Stobie

#69. No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

Bob Goff

#70. 'Skinned' tells the story of Lia, a young girl who has it all - until she nearly dies and has her consciousness transferred into a robot body.

John Joseph Adams

#71. Marketing is the name we use to describe the promise a company makes, the story it tells, the authentic way it delivers on that promise.

Seth Godin

#72. The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with - nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Rob Sheffield

#73. Why does Papaji tell Jeevan this story? Roop wonders. Whenever Gujri tells Roop a story, se reminds Roop that stories are not told for th telling, but for the teaching.

Shauna Singh Baldwin

#74. 'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.

Jonathan Maberry

#75. In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Philip Yancey

#76. I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Quentin Tarantino

#77. Christianity tells a big story. It allows us to see our own story in a new way.

Alister E. McGrath

#78. Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.

Sarah McLachlan

#79. Until a lion tells its own story, the hunter will always be praised

Angel Phetheni

#80. When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike ... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

Maya Angelou

#81. Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.

Simone De Beauvoir

#82. myth doesn't mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred.

Anonymous

#83. Oftentimes the quality of the light tells the story: the time of day, the weather, whether sun is streaming through the window. It can also help you appreciate what the actor is feeling, what the playwright wants you to feel. Any engineer can put a spot on someone.

Jules Fisher

#84. If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

Len Wein

#85. Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

John Bonifaz

#86. Tell me about school, NoahNoah," the old man says..."Our teacher made us write a story about what we want to be when we're big," Noah tells him. "What did you write?""I wrote that I wanted to concentrate on being little first.

Fredrik Backman

#87. Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of her improbable life with candor, wit, and an unsparing eye for the perfect detail. Brilliant.

Janice Erlbaum

#88. It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

Shashi Tharoor

#89. If somebody tells you an obviously untrue story, on the Continent you would remark, "You are a liar, Sir, and a rather dirty one at that." In England you just say "Oh, is that so?" Or "That's rather an unusual story, isn't it?

George Mikes

#90. A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

Christian Keiber

#91. In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

Uwe Boll

#92. I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

David Cook

#93. To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

Emily Procter

#94. Though a picture tells a story, it may not reveal the truth.

Kris Waldherr

#95. The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#96. A story always tells the truth about the true intention of the storyteller, regardless of the plot." - Peter Arpesella

Peter Arpesella

#97. Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

Erin Wasson

#98. If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.

Emeril Lagasse

#99. I think a song that's got something to say. I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last. But I like a song that tells a story and has some meat to it, you know, that means something.

Billy Eckstine

#100. Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

Lee Marvin