Stories Quotes

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

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

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?

Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.

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.

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.

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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.

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

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.

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

Some people have got advice, some people have got horror stories. I like people that look you in the eye with a glow and say "It's gonna be cool."

There is no feeling to be compared with the feeling of having written and finished a story.

We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

I love writing family stories.

Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

There are enough stories about my family. We have all been in the public eye.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

The real story of the settlement of the West was work, not conquest

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong, we get out of harmony with the rest of the natural order.

every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in.

You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.

Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

There are no really new stories anymore.

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

If anything, it was a very egotistical thing because I wanted to move people. I wanted to tell a story and move people.

Stories are invented: Juncker wants to introduce the euro everywhere or immediately deepen the EU - although I publicly stated the opposite that same day.

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

All the stories have to do with emotion. Emotion is driving everything.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

Calling is a 'yes' to God that carries a 'no' to the chaos of modern demands. Calling is the key to tracing the story line of our lives and unriddling the meaning of our existence in a chaotic world.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.

Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.

It's not all about content. It's all about stories. It's not all about stories. It's all about great stories.