Stories Quotes

It's hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It's even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.

I'm absolutely flooded with a raucous energy to get out into the world and tell my story again. I feel like this is spring. After a period of shriveling, out come the leaves.

If you look at any ancient civilization, they've all used fantasy stories to train the young.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

Every love story is a ghost story.

Our reporters do not cover stories from their point of view. They are presenting them from nobodys point of view.

I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.

It's only a story, isn't it?"... "Who's to say what's only a story and what's truth disguised as a story?

Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get the language right.

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

Marriage is like a book. The whole story takes place between the covers.

When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds to music that is honest and lyrical and tells stories.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.

I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.

Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my days off.

So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

One day we wake up and we are broken. We taste it in our morning kiss. Our mirror tells us the same stories in separate hours: things will never be the same.

Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.

It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student....have now been debunked.

I've met so many fans over the years and some have actually become friends of mine and I actually look forward to sharing my stories.

Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

Reports by Politico, Bloomberg and other news outlets have raised inconsistencies in Melania Trump's immigration story.

I started in 1957 when I sold my first story to a magazine.

Often the most specific stories end up being the most universal.

A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

No victim wants their record, or their minor story to be told. Every victim should have the right to tell their own story.