Stories Quotes

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

It’s a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery

Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

The story begins only when the book closes.

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

My father had this mythological sense of the old New York, and he used to tell me stories about these old gangs, particularly the Forty Thieves in the Fourth Ward.

Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.

Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.

There are many stories I've wanted to write that I'm simply not able to - sometimes I haven't found the way in yet, and it doesn't matter how hard I try.

We do not love anything more deeply than we love a story.

Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.

In even the happiest love story, the World wins at last.

Lovers never want to say "I love you" at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.

When we start to believe stories about how life works that come from anywhere else but within, we have set ourselves up for a crash course in getting a spiritual wake-up call!

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

I think Billy Ray has a lot of great stories up his sleeve. I've heard a lot of his plans for the show, should it go forward, and I think there's a lot in store for people, if it's given a chance.

One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself.

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet support.

That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

I'm passionate about stories that have humanity, compassion and humor.

Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.

We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.

I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

That's the miracle of telling a story in film: You can express something inside someone's mind.

All human stories are interesting. You don't put a kid in a show because you need a device. They have a story, too.

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged

Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.

I am, at the end of the day, a guy who loves story.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up.

You cover 50 yards on the playing field of faith with a story that downplays your success. You cover 3 yards, or you may even end up backward, with anything that up-plays or promotes you.

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.