Indigenous Storytelling Quotes & Sayings

Friendship means never having to be alone, it means there's a constant wall of solidarity even when everything else is crumbling around you. If he's the crumble in your life, then I'll be the damn wall! — Emma Hart

I wish for adventure.
I wish to matter.
I wish for a home. — Sophie Jordan

I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money. — George Lucas

I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.' — Hallie Ephron

Fiction, if done right, can bridge cultural divides. Stories can be a footpath for a reader to step into another land and view its indigenous practices and beliefs through a local lens, instead of a telescope. — Nadia Hashimi

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality. — Naomi Wolf

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times. — Victor Salva

With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them. — Imelda May

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else? — Jay Asher

To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes. — Bill Phillips

I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that. — Sarah Dessen