Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

Creating heroes and history are often at odds.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they'll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as - as myth or legend or even fanciful.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

For every once upon a time there must be a story to follow, because if a story doesn't, something else will, and it might not be as harmless as a story.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.

A good story never dies.

History: Gossip well told.

People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.

A good urban legend is something that actually did happen but it got twisted in the telling over time.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

Once upon a time . . .” “In the beginning was . . .” That’s the way it always starts off. Every story, gospel, history, chronicle, myth, legend, folktale, or old wives’ tale blues riff begins with “Woke up this mornin’. . . .

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.