Stories Quotes

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

It [love about acting] is all about role playing - the same thing you do when you're a kid, when you play with dolls or toys and make up stories. I never grew out of it.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.

I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.

I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and that takes supreme focus.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

People who understand everything get no stories.

Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

What kind of people we become depends crucially on the stories we are nurtured on.

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

What's the matter princess? Do you know the end of your story?

Romance is all about making a story out of our love.

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

The universe is not made up of atoms; it’s made up of tiny stories.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

Everyone's always interested in a dark theme, especially when there's humor connected to it. It seems like that helps, if that's an integral and organic part of the whole story.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

To get to this place of a warrior’s courage, we must give up the stories that have ruled our lives and shatter the self-image we created to affirm our story.

Doubt is a question mark; faith is an exclamation point. The most compelling, believable, realistic stories have included them both.

If you don't like someone's story, write your own. If you don't like what somebody says, say what it is you don't like.

I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.

The biggest thing I worry about is the unsubstantiated story. You have to tell the people what you know -- and acknowledge what you don't know.

Everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.