Burt Reynolds Quotes

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

We're all stories, in the end.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

Whether you reach a lot of people or have a profound impact on a few people, their memories of you are your afterlife.

Everyone has a past.

I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.

Why should I ever get fed up talking about my father? He was a brilliant, colorful man who left us with thousands of memories. Most people remember his films, but I've got anecdotes and advice and episodes of real life tucked away inside my head.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

A good story never dies.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.

History takes time... History makes memory.

All of us have a place in history.

I'm part of history.

I am all into doing things that will be cool stories to tell my grandkids.

Our memories are the keys to our past and everything we've ever worked for, fought for, and dreamed of.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Death steals everything except our stories.

The past is more than a memory.

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.