Jamie Hyneman Quotes

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

Jack’s life had more to do with myth, legend, saga, and story than with political theory or political science.

I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

We think in myths; we live in myths

History is a distillation of rumor.

History: Gossip well told.

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.

You become big only when you have great stories to tell.

For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.

The first thing, the first element of a story that people hear, they believe it. Whether it's right or wrong.

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

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.

I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

I don't necessarily think stories have functions any more than diamonds have functions, or the sky has a function... Stories exist. They keep us sane, I think. We tell each other stories, we believe stories. I love watching the slow rise of the urban legend. They're the stories that we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.