Stories Quotes

Eventually, it came to this place like, "I'd like to direct, but I need to find the story to tell." Man of Tai Chi became the story to tell.

I love those people who do story-telling and who ramble on, but I don't do that, I tell jokes - the sort of jokes that anyone really could tell in the pub.

Hearing stories has a direct impact on literacy development.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

Food is about making an interaction with ingredients. If you talk to them, they will always tell you a story.

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met on the internet.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

I tell the stories in front of audiences and wait for something to happen. It's similar to a standup comic doing his schtick for an audience.

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.

Good marketers tell a story.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

Stories are amazing and powerful because they can resonate with people depending on their needs and experiences and speak truths we need to hear in that moment in time.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

Tell me a story of deep delight.

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

I don't really look for challenges as much as I like adventures. Other than that I'm just trying to find stories I want to tell.

There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write

A good story should change the way you see the world.

We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus

You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

You are the effect of your story, that's all.

Why should there be only one sort of photography? I want to create images with elements of my choosing, narrative or evocative... I give myself a literary frame, I tell a story.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

Flying the Feathered Edge captures my life story in an authentic and accurate way. I don't know how it could have been done any better.

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places, you will have the whole story.