Most African stories these days, they talk about famine, HIV and AIDS, poverty or war.

One of his favorite stories, for example, had to do with the Revolutionary War hero, Ethan Allen.

CA So, you have to wonder when, you know, if some other species than us was recording the stories that mattered on Earth, you know, our stories are about Iraq and war and politics and celebrity gossip.

So, stories have characters. Stories have concepts.

Sometimes, when the war is over and all the film crews have left, the most inspiring stories are the ones that float just beneath the radar.

Later on, in France, I loved eavesdropping on grownups' conversations, and I would hear all sorts of stories about my father's previous life, especially that he had done World War II, that he had done the Algerian war.

And I heard stories that shattered all the other stories.

Not stories in words, but stories in data and words.

In war we often see only the frontline stories of soldiers and combat. AT TEDGlobal 2010, Zainab Salbi tells powerful backline stories of women who keep everyday life going during conflicts, and calls for women to have a place at the negotiating table once fighting is over.

Stories matter.

Many stories matter.

I cut stories.

There are thousands of these stories, and many of the women had holes in their bodies holes, fistula that were the violation of war holes in the fabric of their souls.

And recently I've been much more interested in collecting stories from reality so, real stories.

DNA data can tell so many different stories, so this is 30 of those stories.

I exist because there are stories, and if there are no stories, we don't exist.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

And it's an object with fascinating stories and stories that are by no means over yet.

The stories that we want to know, and the stories that do exist about positive tales.

Jonathan Harris collects stories

Fabulous, colorful, anecdotal stories.

We tell ourselves stories.

Stories are the key.

That's 38 stories tall.

You ascend 30 stories.

So my three stories.

Who wrote these stories?

JERUSALEM The horror stories emerging from northern Iraq, as well as the continuing slaughter in Syria s civil war, point to a tectonic shift in the Middle East. Almost 100 years after World War I, the regional state system established after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire is unraveling.

Cartoons are basically short stories.

You don't like love stories.

Carmen Agra Deedy spins stories

This one's several stories tall.

I don't know the stories.

The stories started pouring out.

No stories around the campfire.

I just tell the stories.

I really like these stories.

These are very early stories.

I am reading short stories.

But more importantly, he told stories about the poor that were different than any stories I had heard before.

And specifically, I'm interested in collecting my own stories, stories from the Internet, and then recently, stories from life, which is kind of a new area of work that I've been doing recently.

Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.

Today, stories continue to transcend borders.

There are two stories in Montana.

They are stories with a twist.