Stories Quotes

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

Most of us get our history through story.

I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.

Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.

Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object.

I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women.

Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.

I don't belive Oprah's sexual abuse stories, I mean who would take a black girl when there are plenty of white?

I was always looking outside of myself for stories and ideas and influences and then I kind of realized in 2010, that all of this time, I've developed a "sound." And I've never fully explored it.

Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.

The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend to pay pretty intense attention to what's happening.

The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup wants to extend the cooperation and success to more areas.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.

I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.

Homo-Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.

waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?

And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real

A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys.

And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting-only the deeply personal and familiar.

The tatters of old stories are tangled, weathered, muted by long-held silences that succeeded loud feuds, and sometimes no doubt re-dyed a more flattering color.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read, ’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us.

No matter how "normal" people look, living "ordinary" lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too.

Real inspiration are not people, but their stories.

Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.

A dwarf will always tell tall stories.

Freedom is found within, in the shape of our laughter and the way we love, in the truths that we live by and the stories we become

she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete

...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...

Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....

...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...

Never trust a strange place because there might be someone or something that may introduce you to your death.