Stories Quotes

Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

Between the wolf in the tall grass and the wolf in the tall story there is a shimmering go-between. That go-between, that prism, is the art of literature.

More people telling stories leads to more interesting perspectives in this world. I often think we wouldn't get to these political impasses if we had balance in storytelling.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.

Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.

The incredible thing happens at the beginning of the story always, you notice, not the end. A Sherlock Holmes story is never a trick story.

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns

My stories are never quite good enough

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.

Everything we say is a story. But nothing we say is just a story.

I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.

Your life is truly your life… it belongs to you. It is your story to write with love. Day by day, line by line, write it well

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways.

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

God invites us today to live a great story with Him.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.

NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

The gift of literature is that, in some lucky cases, reading a novel or a story makes the reader more curious, more open-minded.

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener's ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.

I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose.

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

If one story becomes too hot, then you can't forget it. As an actor, you want to remain fluid.

Not exactly but I get inspiration from stories which are unconventional.

What I like about the '60s movies was that they were about women. They were telling women's stories. I think a lot of movies don't tell women's stories anymore.

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

Human beings cannot live without stories.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less.

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.