Stories Quotes

Fairy tales are more than true.

A camera is a camera, a shot is a shot, how you tell the story is the main thing.

The best stories are often true...The narrative of human life is most beautiful when told truthfully and without boundaries.

The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God.

The world is full of fictional characters looking for their stories

It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Education truly can change a person’s story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an #‎ education .

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

Packaging can be theater, it can create a story

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

Every real story is a never ending story.

Most people don't know how to tell stories.

Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed plots and brilliant writing!

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

We photographers say that we take a picture, and in a certain sense, that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so we tell their story.

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Comics are stories; they're like novels or anything else. So the first thing you have to do is become a good storyteller.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours and the truth.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain

By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it - and what other things you don't hear - you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

To survive, you must tell stories.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of do or die! The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.