Stories Quotes

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

The Christian faith grew through story - not text. Only later did the stories become Scripture. While the Scripture must be held in the highest regard, we must not neglect the power of story.

I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.

You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

Stories about ourselves and about the world continually arise in our minds and shape our beliefs about reality.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

Anybody that wants to walk out that door and leave home for a few months and rely on themselves instead of fate might have some interesting stories to tell.

If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.

The biggest stories in 2005 were the national disasters

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

At the end of the day, 'Rocky' is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.

The story of journalism, on a day-to-day basis, is the story of the interaction of reporters and officials

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.

No one has the right to judge you, because no one really knows what you have been through. They might have heard the stories, but they didn't feel what you felt in your heart.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

The teachings of Jesus begin in story and end in symbol - they begin in parable and end in us. These are not Bible stories that we learn; these are our stories.

There were so many stories about Bing's daughter living in sin. We weren't hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn't understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.

If I told you about all the stories I don't tell, I would be violating the very boundaries I set for myself.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.

Don't ever tell a story like it wasn't about you.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a big thought. I don't think people have ever figured out that being informal is a big deal.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

I have been to more than 80 countries, and there is not one-not one-that I didn't have women coming up to me sharing stories of overcoming major abuse, a bad marriage turning good, etc.

My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

There are many animation films out there for teens, tweens and family but there are not that many real life stories.

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.