Stories Quotes

I have to deal with seven ex-stray dogs, and one ex-stray cat. One dog is nearing nineteen years old. Before I go to teach, he likes for me to tell him bedtime stories.

Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

I never use soundtrack; it is always part of the story.

Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.

Lead with a personal story. Give your audience a way to connect and show you're a real person.

Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.

My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.

No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

The main thing I do now is I coach kids, and all of these stories along the way are based in reality.

Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.

The girls with prettiest smiles seem to tell saddest stories

Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.

History, mythology, and folktales are filled with stories of people punished for saying the truth. Only the Fool, exempt from society's rules, is allowed to speak with complete freedom.

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

The press needs stories constantly. No need to bleed, just feed. Branding will keep you standing... Get press not stress.

But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh?

I find that short stories are almost like palate cleansers, or brain cleansers.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can't believe that ours didn't go on forever.

The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

Emotion in itself is not unhappiness. Only emotion plus an unhappy story is unhappiness

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

From the beginning, when I first got an idea for a story and wondered if I could write it, it has always been the story that has driven me.