Hakawati Storytelling Quotes & Sayings

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny. — Demetri Martin

To find out how much we can do or how far we can go, we have to challenge ourselves constantly. — Debasish Mridha

A hakawati is a teller of tales, myths, and fables. A storyteller, and entertainer. A troubadour of sorts, someone who earns his keep by beguiling an audience with yarns. Like the word "hekayah" story, fable, news, hakawati is derived from the Lebanese word "haki", which means talk or conversation. This suggests that in Lebanese the mere act of talking is storytelling. — Rabih Alameddine

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world. — William J. Clinton

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again. — Salman Rushdie

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie. — Robbie Robertson

You cannot deny, my dear friend, that there are in existence creatures who are neither man nor beast, but strange unearthly creations, born of the nefarious passions that arise in distorted minds. — Hanns Heinz Ewers

Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed. — Cinda Williams Chima

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around. — Terry O'Quinn

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. — Joe Biden