Stories Quotes

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.

A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has emerged from the material that the body is.

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.

The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.

People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.

I'm living in Los Angeles, I'm in films and I'm on television, and I'm working with actors and telling stories. I'm living the fantasy. My worst day is a great day.

The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

I feel like people, when it comes to music, whatever genre, they relate to the story more than just the song.

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

Hire the best talent to tell the story, or the view is great from my hotel.

For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves determine the quality of the selves we imagine we are. The stories we tell about others determine the quality of our relationships with them.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

It has been said that sometimes we need a story more than food in order to live. p 374

With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It allows to go really deep into what its relationship is.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

Everybody is a story.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

The philosophy I always have is what's the sentence that would tell me about each shot. If I can't read why the shot's there, what is the story trying to say?

Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.

Every fighter has a story that could break your heart. We lose, we get hurt and everything comes apart. That's when it's so difficult to stay on the straight and narrow.

Never take a mulligan on a par 3. A "hole in three" is not a fun story to relive.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

I think Scotland has some great stories.

Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.

Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.