When you're telling a story, I think you should tell it to its fullest, with reckless abandon, and absolutely let it be what it is. — Kate Winslet
The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one. — Sid Caesar
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Successful people often enjoy telling their story. — Lewis Howes
Every tale can be told in a different way — Greek Proverbs
You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life. — Jane Hirshfield
My whole story is just about me having a second chance. — 2 Chainz
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember. — Harold Pinter
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — W. S. Gilbert
Most people don't know how to tell stories. — Ted Rall
I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way. — Ida B. Wells
There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too. — Margaret Atwood
Short Recount Quotes
Your real resumé is a painful recounting of all of your struggles. — Naval Ravikant
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience. — Michael Shermer
if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow — Rumi
One often calms one's grief by recounting it. — Pierre Corneille
In recounting our woes, we often soothe them. — Pierre Corneille
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. — Hugh Mackay
Once they ask for a recount, we will provide them with a recount. — Kenneth Blackwell
I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them. — James Altucher
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted. — Carol Shields
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Recoup Quotes
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken.
Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around. — Rakim
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business. — Don Bluth
You have to find things that are accessible and doable in your busy life and try to fit some time in your schedule to just have time to yourself and be able to recoup and refocus. — Anousheh Ansari
Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment. — Margo Kaufman
So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. — David Knopfler
I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children. — Erykah Badu
When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it. — Tony Palermo
I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit. — Wes Craven
I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough. — Jill Sobule
From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in. — Kevin Whately
Record Quotes
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records. — Holly Johnson
Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself. — Chandra Shekhar Azad
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. — Ivan Pavlov
Training errors are recorded on paper. Tactical errors are etched in stone. — Erwin Rommel
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I am the hit-maker, the record-breaker. I got style and grace, a pretty face. I'll make your back crack, your liver quiver. — Dusty Rhodes
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? — George Carlin
For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone. — Rod Serling
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson
We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'. — Carter G. Woodson
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are. — Madeleine L'Engle
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time. — Mircea Eliade
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind. — Claude Debussy
If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures. — Harry Allen Overstreet
Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote. — Josh Mcdowell
In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart. — Elizabeth Kenny
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. — Paul Tournier
Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way? — Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity. — Thucydides
Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. For whenever excellence is recounted, it is increased. — Sterling W Sill
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person? — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Yousef Aid Ahmed has memorized the places where his four brothers' bodies laid after they were killed by US marines, he said. The family recounts that November day in 2005 and says it was a massacre of the brothers, along with 20 other people, following a roadside bomb in Haditha. — James Mattis
If we are going to allow somebody to request a recount, the intent obviously is that you expect a recount to be included. — Tom Brown, Jr.
I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions. — Joan Blades
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air? — John Milton
Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you will feel like you are walking the streets of Washington DC on the night that John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln. This is a hugely entertaining, heart-stopping read. — Vince Flynn
Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her: "The miracle occurred; I realized that in addition to all the suffering I had caused, I was not my own master. I decided this slavery must stop once and for all." And it did. — Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day. — Neil Gaiman
I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life. — Chuck Klosterman
The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God. — Cyril Connolly
Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them. — Elbert Hubbard
The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. It’s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy. — Sim Van der Ryn
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to recount their sufferings and even recite their poems. — Heinrich Heine
The American people, when had the chance, three times now have said "no" to Hillary Clinton. The Democrats did it in 2008. The Jill Stein recount this year and the American people in 2016. Three times in eight years the American people have looked at Hillary Clinton and said "no." — Rush Limbaugh
Mancil Travis - I have always had a fascination with this character from my hometown. When I put pen to paper to recount stories I knew of him, I kept hearing this dream sequence in my head that was Willie Sugarcapps harmonies singing like a Greek chorus, "White carnations." — Will Kimbrough
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This is a novel [Candid] which has narratives within narratives, such as when Cunégonde recounts her story. — Mark Ravenhill
People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom. — Elsa Maxwell
A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty. — Miguel de Cervantes
Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. — Augusto Roa Bastos
When by the Ruins oft I past My sorrowing eyes aside did castAnd here and there the places spyWhere oft I sate and long did lie.Here stood that Trunk, and there that chest,There lay that store I counted best,My pleasant things in ashes lieAnd them behold no more shall I.Under the roof no guest shall sit,Nor at thy Table eat a bit.No pleasant talk shall 'ere be toldNor things recounted done of old.No Candle 'ere shall shine in Thee,Nor bridegroom's voice ere heard shall bee.In silence ever shalt thou lie. — Anne Dudley Bradstreet
I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes. — Robert Torricelli
In my opinion, it is not in our interest to have complicated negotiations with a region, and then have to follow it up with 535 negotiations at home. I have experienced recounts, and it is better to vote once. — William M. Daley
My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. — Rudolph A. Marcus
The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount. — Kenneth Blackwell
We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along. — Brit Hume
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