Stories Quotes

A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it.

Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.

This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous in the last moments of their life.

I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

For some reason, our media are fascinated by stories that appear to harm American National interests.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.

I'm of the people in the bar and the people in my stories. They are my tribe.

Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.

There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.

Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.

David Cristofanos debut novel captures the essence of the human spirit, and delivers a story that is simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking.

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

You know, you find that these stories ... will turn one of us into the good guy and one of us into the bad guy. If you look at it closely or even not that closely ... it's ridiculous.

You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.

I just take credit for being smart enough to find a guy as smart as Benett [Miller] to tell the story [of "Moneyball"].

I got into [producing] to be part of stories that wouldn't necessarily be right for me as an actor.

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind.

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations.

Who am I to stop everybody just to tell my stupid story? It's presumptuous.

Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

Tell your story with your whole heart.

Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.

Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'

We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.

I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.

People just want good stories.

The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.