Stories Quotes

Failure is just a tax on the way to success. It is inevitable but it is not the whole story.

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

When you hide another story in a story, that’s the story I am telling the children.

Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter of choosing oneself.

A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

I want a documentary to crest by being voted on by 6000 people who are in the business of telling stories.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Are you loving having these great iconic stories back as much as I am? 'One Life' is back in action and I love putting my 'Blair on' again.

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

I love telling stories, that's it. I love it. That's the word I would choose to describe what I love the most.

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.

My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.

There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.

But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.

We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

I remember telling ghost stories with my cousins when I was four, five, six-years-old. I've just always loved it. But I think you're drawn to things you're terrified of.

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.

If I love the character and if I love the story, and the character requires me to be shirtless, or if it requires me to lose 30 pounds, I'm ready to do it.

It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.

I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.

I'm a Star Wars fan from way back, and I love where the stories are going now.

You have to be yourself, as models come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are girls out there who are more voluptuous and they work better for different sorts of stories.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

Change your story, change your life. Divorce the story of limitation, and marry the story of the truth and everything changes.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Every love story is a potential grief story.

You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

I'm a goof. I talk too much. I tell stories. I tell cheesy Dad jokes. I'm theatrical and I'll mix things up and I'll surprise people. Those are the things that I just do because that's who I am.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.