Stories Quotes

It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.

Use every customer point of contact to weave stories about who you are and what your brand stands for.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.

Other religions are stories of man's search for God. The Bible is the story of God's search for man.

Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

I love being an illustrator because I get to read really great stories, work with amazing people, travel and see places I never would've seen. And I get to draw all the time.

I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.

I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the world: telling stories is a universally accessible means through which people make meaning.

So ultimately I am looking for a story that has some value and is important and is entertaining.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Stories are not about ideas, gimmicks, or places. Stories are about people. People are about feelings!

A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.

If you're rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace. So you keep moving, and this is the way I think the world's stories should be told - from many different perspectives.

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore, I find that stories people told each other thousands of years ago are still relevant now.