Stories Quotes

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

J.R. Angelella is a truly gifted writer. Zombie is one of the smartest, strangest, and most beautifully crafted coming-of-age stories you will ever encounter.

When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything about, and they just weren't working.

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened with the Republican Party.

It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

I'm going to cut taxes big league, and you're going to raise taxes big league, end of story.

Nobody is going to move. Here is the story folks.

The biggest story in all of politics are the millions of people that are coming out to vote for me, in all fairness, for the Republican Party.

Sometimes I'll say, wow, that's going be a great story, and I get killed.

I'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. They shouldn't be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody's name.

I will be in Melbourne, Florida, and I just heard the crowds are massive that want to be there. I turn on the TV, open the newspapers, and I see stories of chaos, chaos, yet it is the exact opposite.

A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between that which is speculation and that which is fact.

I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.

stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.

Just begin a story with such a phrase as 'I remember Disraeli - poor old Dizz! - once saying to me, in answer to my poke in the eye,' and you will find me and Morpheus off in a corner, necking.

A person is no more & no less than the Story of his Passions & Deeds.

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

Why do most of us make such boring choices for the stories of our lives?

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.

I loved the old stories in National Lampoon, like the original story the movie Vacation was based on. I used to laugh at them until I cried.

If I see anything remotely like a telcom-run faster internet that you have to pay more to get preferential traffic on, I'm out folks. I've seen this story before, I ran an ISP back in the late 90s.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

The thing is that Warcraft has so much story available to it. For the fans, there are some key stories they really want to see on screen. I won't be doing those.

Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's got so many stories and anecdotes.

We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman.

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

I came up with a story and I wrote it.

I think women love to read love stories.

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

If there's a great story and great characters, then I can love a film in any genre, though crime thrillers and sci-fi have a particular soft spot in my heart.

I want to find those stories that we may talk about at the barbecue or when we're playing bid whist or with our cousins watching TV, but you don't see it on television. Certainly it's perspective.

I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.

I think the best comparable is Bryant Gumbel's "Real Sports," in the sense that it's quarterly as well. So that's what we're doing, a quarterly special, an hour, three to four stories each hour.

I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.

Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.

I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories.

I could write stories just as rotten.