Story Quotes

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.

I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine.

I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.

It's funny how seeing a love story never gets boring, because it's the dream, isn't it? It's the dream to have a true connection with another human being.

'Toy Story' we found, sorta by accident, because we didn't know what we were doing, the idea of being replaced by somebody. Everybody has that fear, or encounters this jealousy at some point.

You see, " she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him.

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.

It's the story that counts.

I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

A good story can travel in time and borders it hits you no matter where you are.

Every great brand is like a great story.

I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.

Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

'Macbeth' is an amazing story.

I've always wanted to do a world creation story and visually create this amazing, incredible, magical kingdom.

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion!

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

Great losses are great lessons.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.

I'm completely ecstatic when a woman has own back story and brings something to the table and has a real strong kind of independence.

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.

It was impossible not to fall in love with him.

Well why don't you lean over this counter a little more and give me your best kiss, and then I'll tell you if I want you to take me out to dinner.

That’s not me.That’s my duality!

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

Shame comes in different doses.

Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.

You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.