Stories Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of the aesthetics, technology, and story are stripped away.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

I prefer smaller movies because they tend to be more about character than about story.

Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

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

I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

My dear Elinor, you were obviously born into the wrong story,” said Dustfinger at last.

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.

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

The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.

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

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.

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

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

Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty.

You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.

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.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.

To tell my story, to touch lives.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!