Stories Quotes

The quest for the truth, in and of itself, Is a story that's filled with insights.

The American underground punk scene, though, is a story worth remembering.

everybody has a story to tell

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

The real story of Detroit [...] can be summed up in seven words. Private enterprise built it, government destroyed it.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

But then, that's the beauty of writing stories-each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there's no feeling like it.

I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none.

Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.

Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

I like stories with lots of psychology.

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.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

Keep the corners of your mouth turned up. Speak in a low, persuasive tone. Listen; be teachable. Laugh at good stories and learn to tell them...For as long as you are green, you can grow.

In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality.

Actually, there is no way of making vomiting courteous. You have to do the next best thing, which is to vomit in such a way that the story you tell about it later will be amusing.

With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.

I'm always looking for a fresh perspective because it's fun to tell stories that are original and new in some way.

Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.

I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

Short stories that's all it's ever been Don't you worry 'bout the ending Babe, before we begin I have seen the sun That's behind the rain I have felt the joy That's behind the pain.