Stories Quotes

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of.

Life beats up on everyone from time to time. If you don't want to reach out to a trusted friend or professional, find hope, optimism and perhaps a path out of your situation in the stories of others.

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day.

I am sent on assignments just like guys. I have covered presidential campaigns, natural disasters, tragedies, red carpets, medical stories and more.

I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.

I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.

I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.

But me contradicting a news story is not going to make my words fact. It will just create a new news story.

Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.

I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant." "Ouch." "Though very courageous." "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.

A mother is a story with no beginning. That is what defines her.

In our present universe, many things are empty stories; amongst all these meaningless stories, love is less meaningless story than others!

If the length of your life is much shorter than the story of your life, this means that you have lived your life so fully!

When you want to say something very important, tell it with a short sentence! There is no time for long stories!

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.

For "The Intervention" I came up with a back-story and Clea [Duvall] was like, "No." And I was like, "I don't care."

What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.

Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.

No stories or explanations,' Finnikin had once told him. 'When it comes to women, straight into an apology and you will find the rest of your life bearable.

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?

Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

Letting go of the cozy stories you've been carrying around is devastating. But there's more room for new stuff after you do it.

All our stories are part invention - the way we've decided to make sense of what has happened.

Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality.

I do feel like there's this Republican Party establishment is in disarray. That's the story that the Donald Trump surge seems to tell.

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

The only kind of film I want to write is a story where I can keep on seeing the stories play out. I'm a huge television fan, and I'm a huge continuing storyline fan.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.

Im nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

I love a story that balances pace with detail.

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.

For me, a great story is one in which the protagonist faces unimaginable odds; where the stakes are high that failure constitutes a disaster.

I love stories about artificial intelligence, and post-humanity, so I'm thinking along those lines.

Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst.

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon.