Nathan Phillips Quotes

Storytelling is the important thing.

Whether in cave paintings or the latest uses of the Internet, human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

The most important thing is story-telling. It's as singular and old-fashioned as that.

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

We are the storytelling animal.

I really love storytelling.

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

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.