Quotes with story-telling

Quotes 201 till 220 of 402.

  • Italo Calvino Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Abe Fortas Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Anita Brookner No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • George Eliot No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Shirley Williams No test tube can breed love and affection. No frozen packet of semen ever read a story to a sleepy child.
    Shirley Williams
    British baroness, politician and academic (1930 - 2021)
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  • Carl Sandburg Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Brantley Gilbert Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Brandi Chastain Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bob Schieffer Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • William Morris Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Alfred de Vigny On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Norman Mailer Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Tom Ogden Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
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  • Avi Arad Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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