Top 1200 Fairy Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.

Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born.

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.

I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

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

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

Writing short stories was kind of like I was cheating the whole time, in some way. I went back and forth between writing the novels and sort of sneaking out to work on stories occasionally. These stories were written over the last 10 years or so, as I was taking breaks from the novels I've written.

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

The best stories you usually hear are stories that people feel some type of urgency about.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.

Stories, we all have stories. Nature does not tell stories, we do. We find ourselves in them, make ourselves in them, choose ourselves in them. If we are the stories we tell ourselves, we had better choose them well.

Here's the weird thing about me. I was never one to tell you stories about me. I was always the guy who others told stories about. I was like that up until I was 35 years old. And then I started telling stories about me onstage.

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

When I heard the stories of both my movies, I liked them. These are the kind of stories that I enjoy.

NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.

Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.

Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.

When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

I think most people aren't really privy to how stories are developed and what stories are - make it to the front page or to the mainstream media, whether it's in print or in broadcast. And I think they'd be shocked and disappointed to see some of the bias that exists in some of the stories that don't get told - or the manner in which they are told.

When one of Lisa's baby teeth fell out here, the tooth fairy left her 50 cents. Another tooth fell out when she was with her father in Las Vegas, and that tooth fairy left her $5. When I told Elvis that 50 cents would be more in line, he laughed. He knew I was not criticizing him; how would Elvis Presley know the going rate for a tooth?

I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their own imaginations and lead them to act the stories out or to embark on related research, they will learn more and learn to love reading more.

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

We've all heard stories about poker players grinding it out for two days straight. Believe me; I've got stories like that of my own. But the bottom line is that these stories usually don't have great endings. That's because the mind starts playing tricks after a marathon poker session, especially after a losing session.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

Before 'Fallen,' I'd written love stories and more love stories. I'd fallen in love with love stories - but they were also beginning to feel just a little bit too insular, too small.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.