Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
Helen Rowland

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
Lord Chesterfield

I don't really know what is shocking. When you tell the story of a man who is beheaded, you have to show how they cut off his head. If you don't, it's like telling a dirty joke and leaving out the punch line.
Roman Polanski

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.
Matt Groening

All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.
Harvey Milk

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Sidney Poitier

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.
Mary-Kate Olsen

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.
Robert Redford

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.
Robert Redford

You can't completely control the sport - Tiger Woods comes close. The test is against yourself and nature's own way. I find golf a particularly good metaphor for this story.
Robert Redford

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.
Robert Redford

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.
Sidney Sheldon

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.
Brad Paisley

A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
Anne McCaffrey

The easiest songs to write are pure fiction. There is no limit to how you can tell the story. I find it difficult when I'm replaying an event through a song.
Jason Mraz

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
Lenny Kravitz

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
Italo Calvino

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
Merle Haggard

I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.
Nicholas D. Kristof