S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.”
“Stories are a different kind of true.”
Source: Room: Picador Classic
“Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.”
“Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Stories are all we humans have to make us immortal.”
Source: Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus
“Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.”
“Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.”
Source: Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.”
“Stories are at the very heart of being human; they talk
about where we're from, where we are, and where we're going.
They're like bread; you need to hear and tell them everyday.”
“Stories are attempts to share our values and beliefs. Storytelling is worthwhile when it tells what we stand for.”
“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.”
“Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of a world that spreads in all directions like arctic tundra or sea ice.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo
“Stories are contagious. Even the thoughts in your head can spread like a cold.”
Source: If I Disappear
“Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.”
“Stories are epically important to how we view and interact in the world around us. We define ourselves, our abilities and even our goals by the stories we believe and share. These stories become part of our personal view of our world.”
“Stories are equipment for living.”
“Stories are flight simulators for our brains.”
“Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories ar for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
Source: The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
“Stories are gateways that open your mind to think differently and question what people have stopped questioning.”
Source: Rea and the Blood of the Nectar
“Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.”
“Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.”
“Stories are how we remember; we tend to forget lists and bullet points.”
“Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or narratives. Stories are how we inspire and motivate human beings. Great stories help us to understand our place in the world, create our identity, discover our purpose, form our character and define and teach human values.”
Source: Karma Kurry for the Mind, Body, Heart & Soul
“Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
Source: A Monster Calls
“Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
“Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness.”
Source: Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions
“Stories are invented as you go along...”
“Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.”
“Stories are just lies made to look like truth.”
Source: The Human Script
“Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.”
Source: The Book of Flying
“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
“Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.”
Source: The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread
“Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it”
“Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.”
“Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.”
“Stories are like catechisms, but they're catechisms for your impulses, they're catechisms with flesh on.”
“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”
Source: A Wrinklein Time Quintet
“Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do. Our stories can set us free...When we set them free.”
“Stories are like islands, go out exploring and you're bound to get lost fantastically.”
“Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“Stories are like spiders, with all they long legs, and stories are like spiderwebs, which man gets himself all tangled up in but which look pretty when you see them under a leaf in the morning dew, and in the elegant way that they connect to one another, each to each.”
Source: Anansi Boys
“Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.”
Source: The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology
“Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos.”
“Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.”
“Stories are masks of God.
That's a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother's Grimm.
Stories show us how to bear the unbearable, approach the unapproachable, conceive the inconceiveable. Stories provide meaning, texture, layers and layers of truth.
Stories can also trivialize. Offered indelicately, taken too literally, stories become reductionist tools, rendering things neat and therefore false. Even as we must revere and cherish the masks we variously create, Campbell reminds us, we must not mistake the masks of God for God.
So it seemes to me that one of the most vital things we can teach our children is how to be storytellers. How to tell stories that are rigorously, insistently, beautifully true. And how to believe them.”
Source: The Man on the Ceiling
“Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”
“Stories are medicine. I have been taken with stories since I heard my first. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act, anything -- we need only listen.”
Source: Women Who Run With the Wolves
“Stories are medicine.”