Stories Quotes

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

The Moguls is a story about guys that have all grown up together and are now in their late 40s, early 50s.

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.

So what Ghost Stories means to me is like you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but it will be great at some point.

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

If you want real control, drop the illusion of control; let life have you. It does anyway. You’re just telling yourself the story of how it doesn’t.

Someone who wants to be with you, WILL be with you. End of story.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.

There is no story that is not true.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what.

You must give your own story to the world.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

Photography must be integrated with the story.

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.

A photographer is like a writer... you're writing with your lens so make sure you tell a good story.

I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.