Stories Quotes

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it!

A story is like building a chapel; a novel is a cathedral.

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history if not the endless story of his repeated failures?

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

We need to make our faith our very own love story.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you.

That's why they (the Bush administration) had to make up that story about weapons of mass destruction. Because that was the only thing that would sell to the American people, and that wasn't true.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen.

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.

Ric Flair is the greatest guy ever. He just wants to hang out, have a beer, and tell stories. He's the coolest. I've never met The Rock though.

I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

It takes a while to tell stories, I think it's because I was drunk for three years.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

Let her tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble and run, her joys must be high as her sorrows are deep, let her grow like a weed in the sun.

Life is not a private affair. A story and its lessons are only made useful if shared.

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

Faith comes from listening to the right stories.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Sensationalism sells: Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

The tabloids create their own stories about people's lives that don't exist.

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.

There are so many people I would love to meet and say thank you for posting their videos, because hearing their stories and everything comforted me.

We don’t attach to things; we attach to our stories about them.

I tell people to start implementing when they are pretty sure there aren't more important stories out there. An iteration's worth of data is worth months of speculation.