#tories

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#effort #gods #great #impress #journeys

Some stories are true that never happened. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#happened #never #some #stories #true

The Palestinian situation is different. We can have military cooperation with other factions in the Palestinian territories. But we cannot have this with Hizbullah in Lebanon. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#cooperation #different #factions #lebanon #military

The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#attention #careful #commonality #exchange #find

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories. ↗

— Dario Fo

#boy #i #ironic #learned #spontaneously

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before. ↗

— Carly Rae Jepsen

#couple #girlfriends #had #horror #i

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#breaking #down #everything #family #god

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#audience #colors #context #dramatic #i

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#i #interested #stories #storytelling #suppose

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#doing #french #i #laundry #recipes