Stories Quotes

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

When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

All my jewelry has stories.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

We only hear success stories. You don't hear about the hundreds and hundreds - the overwhelming majority that don't go anywhere. This is a more realistic portrayal of what happens in startups.

Telling stories on behalf of brands is what I've done all my life.

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.

Too many times nowadays the picture is expected to tell the whole story, when in truth there's only one picture in a hundred thousand that can stand alone as a piece of communication.

What's really good is that there are people making stories and writing them and the vast majority never see the light of day and it doesn't matter a fig.

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

A yokel mind loves stories from of old, Being the kind it can repeat and hold.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them. I am all the time writing a novel.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it. I just want to own my truth.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.

The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

I'm more a fan of old-school films with really interesting stories and good performances. That's what I'd like to do.

Caution is the lower story of prudence.

I am primarily a loner. I don't go to clubs. I don't hang out with people. I don't know many people. It's just the way it ended up. It's not a sob story; it's fine for me.

I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.

Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

A strong theme is always running through a well-told story.

I can't write my life story without Emmitt and Troy. They can't write their life stories without me. We're tied together forever. This is a day to remember for the rest of our lives.

You need a story to displace a story.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.

If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.