S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Stories have no beginning and no end, only doors through which one may enter them. A story is an endless labyrinth of words, images and spirits, conjured up to show us the invisible truth about ourselves. A story is, after all, a conversation between the narrator and the reader, and just as narrators can only relate as far as their ability will permit, so too readers can only read as far as what is already written in their souls.”
Source: El laberinto de los espíritus
“Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.”
Source: Mao II
“Stories have power. Gleemen's tales, and bards' epics, and rumors in the street alike. They stir passions, and change the way men see the world.”
Source: Winter's Heart
“Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.”
Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.”
“Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.”
Source: A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
“Stories have the power to spark wonder, shape young minds, and leave footprints on the heart. I hope my books create a little magic in every child's world."
Renjitha Manish”
Source: The Rustling Forest: Tiny Tales of Courage, Kindness, and Fun
“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
“Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.”
“Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way.”
Source: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves
“Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.”
“Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.”
Source: Neverland
“Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.”
“Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
“Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.”
“Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.”
“Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.”
“Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.”
“Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.”
“Stories make it possible for us to be human.”
“Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.”
“Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.”
“Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the same way. It all probably started around some campfire a million years ago.”
“Stories matter – telling them, sharing them, preserving them, changing them, learning from them, and escaping with and through them. We learn about ourselves and the world that we live in through fiction just as much as through facts. Empathy, perception and understanding are never wasted. All libraries are a gateway into other worlds, including the past – and the future.”
Source: The Secret Chapter
“Stories matter. Many stories matter.”
“Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of lies. Stories can exaggerate and offend and they always, always matter.”
“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
“Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a way to save face. It's also a way to forget the power of a story and of a storyteller, the power in the margins, and the potential for change.”
Source: Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
“Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside stories and stories between stories and finding your way through them is as easy and as hard as finding your way home. And part of the finding is the getting lost. And when you’re lost you start to look around and to listen.”
“Stories, my father used to say, would always change the course of our lives, the greatest ones being retold over and over again not to simply convey morals or life lessons, but to bring people together. That is the reason a storyteller tells stories, he declared even during his last days, while lying in the hospital bed. So he can connect to another human being!”
Source: A Girl Like That
“Stories never live alone; They are the branches of a family that we have to trace back, and forward.”
Source: The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
“Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.”
Source: The Borrowers
“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
“Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.”
“Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.”
Source: Angelopolis: A Novel
“Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.”
Source: We All Need Heroes: Stories of the Brave and Foolish
“Stories of Ayuba's Muslim religious practices - running away to find private spaces in which to say his daily prayers - led to his imprisonment. During his captivity, Ayuba wrote a letter in Arabic to his father in Africa, explaining the desperation of his situation and pleading for help. The letter made its way into the hands of James Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, which began as an antislavery colony.”
Source: The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
“Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys or a bunch of ladies, there's something interesting about that.”
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
“Stories of maternal secrecy are rare. I wanted to think about my mother’s heart away from the troubling moralism that attached to female promiscuity. I wanted to know more about this heart. Not the trapped heart I knew growing up. The heart that found a lover.”
Source: Unearthing
“Stories of me are born in the winds under my wings, and they are as fleeting as the glimpses you catch of me. - The Malwatch”
“Stories of the brave, glamorous girl stopped selling so the press changed its angle and turned mean (and dumb); "transvestite", "degenerate", etc. Magazines start to use the pronouns "he" to refer to Christine”
Source: Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
“Stories only happen to people who can tell them.”
“Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.”
“Stories open up new paths, sometimes send us back to old ones, and close off still others. Telling and listening to stories we too imaginatively walk down those paths - paths of longing, paths of hope, paths of desperation.”
“Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities.”
“Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.”
“Stories provide a map that can help navigate the bumps in the road. (p.32)”
Source: Belonging Metis
“Stories require faith, not facts.”
“Stories require voices to speak them and ears to hear them. (..) Often, the problem isn't with the voices (..), voices are frequently there - singing, screaming, yearning to be heard - but we don't hear them because fear and blame muffle the sounds. (p. 41, 42)”
Source: I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame