Stories Quotes

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think.

I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of photographers that come in and tell these stories.

The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Above all things, I delight in listening to stories, and sometimes in telling them.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story

I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups.

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

PANTOMIME, n. A play in which the story is told without violence to the language. The least disagreeable form of dramatic action.

The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.

At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.

When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises, and also love.

The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.

The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Don't die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul.

I've always wanted to create drama in my pictures, which is why I paint people. It's people who have brought drama to pictures from the beginning. The simplest human gestures tell stories.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

I usually dont like to spoon feed my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.