Stories Quotes

Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

The Batman type of story may stimulate children to homosexual fantasies, of the nature of which they may be unconscious.

The truth about stories is, that's all we are.

I wanted to paint pictures of people. I thought, "Why bother doing anything else. Everything else is a waste of time. I want to tell stories about people and their feelings and emotions."

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

The story is more important to me than the part.

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

It never gets any easier. But I will get stronger. Because my story is far from over.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.

We don't just live in books awake and dreams asleep. We are living stories, you and I, with dreams inside us undeniable, with love to give and people to walk beside.

Listen to my story and everything will come out true

Every golfer should come to the first tee with fourteen clubs, a dozen balls, a handful of tees, and at least one great golf story

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.

The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

The story is everything, which means it's our job to tell better stories.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

If you don't like someone's story, write your own.

And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.