“Trust me, I'm telling you stories…. I can change the story. I am the story.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Written on the Body
“Trust me, I'm telling you stories…. I can change the story. I am the story.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Written on the Body
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)
Sydney Carter (1915–2004) British musician and poet
Lord of the Dance (1963)
“Nobody can teach me who I am.”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
Jesse Jackson (1941) African-American civil rights activist and politician
Speech at Anderson College in Anderson, Indiana (4 March 1979), quoted in Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith (1987) by David G. Myers and Malcolm A. Jeeves. The first sentence is a modification of a quote by Napoleon Hill: "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
“I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defence of it.”
John Locke (1632–1704) English philosopher and physician
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The Reasonableness of Christianity (1695)
Doug Hall (1944) American television personality
Denver Post Doug Hall of "Inventor" invents a lot, but not the truth http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_3645379
“I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.”
Utah Phillips (1935–2008) American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet
Kupfer, David, "Utah Phillips" http://progressive.org/mag/interview/utahphillips, The Progressive. September 2003. Web. August 6, 2013.