Stories Quotes

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.

You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong - it went really, really well and I was really pleased when she said yes.

Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked because I believed it.

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.

The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.

Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals.

... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.

There is no story unless you've written it.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

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

When you listen to other women’s stories, you begin to understand your own better, and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.

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

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

If I want a long, boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

I can sort of do what I want. Maybe I have to work harder to prove myself in some new relationship because they've heard some wacky stories about me. But at least I can get the meeting.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

Every life comes with a story ... and a possibility for a great adventure.

I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.

To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

I think it's hard for an outsider to capture the flavor of a community and all its nuances, so ultimately Haitian-Americans need to start sharing intimate accounts of their stories.

I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.

There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the other.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

To be human is to be in a story.

It is the story that matters, not just the ending.

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.