Stories Quotes

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There are no really new stories anymore.

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 love writing family stories.

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

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

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."

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.

I think of a myth as a story that helps you explain all the different pieces of your life. In that broad sense, there is no way to live without mythology.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.

A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.