Stories Quotes

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

We're all stories, in the end.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.

Living your life is a long and doggy business. . . . And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.

History will tell the story, America will always stand.

In a sea of stories, find the right one to tell, and the right way to tell it.

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.

Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love.

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

Not only is a good prank harmless, but, like a good story, it reveals an essential truth that would otherwise be hidden.

When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.

Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That’s how his mind felt—like his missing memories were aching.

If my serenade of song and story should serve as a pillow for some composer's head, as yet perhaps unborn, to dream and build on our fond melodies in his tomorrow, I have not labored in vain.

I was raised with a huge Armenian influence, always hearing stories of Armenia, celebrating Armenian holidays.

I became a cook so I could cook and tell stories in wacky ways.

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

What I know is that I am honest about my films, and my films are honest about reality. The stories themselves dictate the way that they should be told.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.

It’s more than just saying lines and turning the light on. You have to drive the story - there’s a technical aspect.

I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.

Too often we tell kids pleasant stories devoid of truth, and stories without truth are not good stories. Our audience deserves more from us.

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

The only thing that I am trying to do is to find stories that I like, stories that are meaningful and that can connect and question, since I am not 18 years old anymore.

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

I guess some stories do not need telling.

A story can only be contained in a book.

An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you are the author.

Language is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.