When You Can No Longer Be A Storyteller Quotes & Sayings

You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own. — Mark Caine

The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities. — Teresa Of Avila

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live. — Armistead Maupin

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form. — Poe Ballantine

Men's fundamental attitudes toward the world are fixed by the scope and qualities of the activities in which they partake. — John Dewey

Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way. — William Bernbach

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people. — Bryce Courtenay

The novel comes from a long shamanic tradition wherein the shaman-storyteller himself is transformed, no longer storyteller but a character, an animal, a god, a goddess, or a natural force that is not his everyday identity. And these moments, when the characters come alive and the author disappears, take us into another world. — Hal Zina Bennett

Nicci hugged her back. "You do know, don't you, that I also love you? — Terry Goodkind

Jobs are created by businesses, especially small and mid-sized businesses. — Charlie Dent

You weren't to know how your touch
with the teaspoon stirred me ... — Tiffany Atkinson

Life is fragile and important; then it must end. — Matshona Dhliwayo

taxi? I need to get to the airport. I'm — Blake Pitcher

If you don't perceive love, if you cannot recognize love, it's because you only recognize the poison inside you. I am responsible for what I say, but I am not responsible for what you understand. I can give you my love, but you can make the interpretation that you are receiving judgments, or who knows? Only your storyteller knows. When we no longer believe our own stories, we find it so easy to enjoy one another. — Miguel Ruiz

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear! — Ida Tarbell

To join or not to join films was the biggest choice I had to make. I'd done two years of biogenetic engineering, was an economics graduate and a gold medalist. I had also been a Bharatanatyam dancer from age five, always won the best actress award in school. Finally, I decided to do things for my soul, chose to act. — Amisha Patel

There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial. — Henry David Thoreau

I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being ... It happens because the storyteller's own experience ... has moved him to an emotion so passionate that he can no longer keep it shut up in his heart. — Murasaki Shikibu