Stories Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

Most love stories are nocturnal. That's what makes them so fascinating.

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

To connect to people at the deepest level, you need stories.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color.

People are the story they tell themselves.

Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.

My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.

I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change.

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

He who reads a story only once is condemned to read the same story his whole life.

I've always loved adventure stories that involve brilliant kids using their brains to beat systems that seem unbeatable.

Well I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech, and that reminds me of a story that's so dirty I'm ashamed to think of it myself.

Your excuses will never be as good as the story of how you got it done.

I think my love is storytelling. No matter what it is, it's storytelling. And so whatever the medium is, what's right for the story, I enjoy doing it.

The story is not in the plot but in the telling.

We are embedded in the great evolutionary story of planet Earth, the spare, elegant process of mutation and selection and bricolage. And this means that we are anything but alone.

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

When everyone is catching great waves and out in the line up telling stories and having a laugh, you have the best times. I also get really psyched surfing or running in the rain.

A short story is what you see when you look out of the window.

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

You must remember, all stories start somewhere.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

Companies thrive on the basis of the stories they tell.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.