Stories Quotes

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.

I was quite shy. I used to write stories all the time, and I think that was a worry for my parents.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

If I could have anything I wanted, I would choose story without end, and it seems I have lots of company in that.

It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries.

A lost coin is found by means of a candle; the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.

That's the worst way you can hear about comedy material: from a third person's blog story that they wrote when they were upset.

There are two types of stories: public and private.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

For me, my films have already aged. When they're finished, I don't want to watch them. Of course, I feel protective, but I try not to attach myself to these stories.

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.

I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world.

I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice.

I loved hard-rock bands, and I loved songwriters who told stories.

I guess telling stories is an art. I never looked at it that way. I just started talking, and everyone started laughing. So I kept talking, and they kept laughing.

I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.

I know that some of the things which happen in these stories are not likely, but sometimes I wonder if they are not possible in some way.

Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.

I think love is one of the most elusive things in the world. I don't know that there's a perfect formula for it and that's what makes the stories interesting.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

I love sport, so I'd love to do more stories if I can that deal with sport maybe. Other characters, actually the real guy is so interesting why would you want to get anyone to play them?

I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

I tend to really enjoy being swept up in fiction. I love a good story and I admire fiction authors.

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

I hope my visual language inspires others to tell their stories and challenges people's thinking.

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

I think when we get to a place that this is not the story, that everyone's story is a part of the story, then we can say this has changed. Until then, these are steps to change if they're consistent.

I tell the stories that are of interest to me.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.