Stories Quotes

Don't let them tell us stories

— Albert Camus

We are creatures of story.

— Helen Dunmore

I love stories about women.

— Clint Eastwood

People want good stories.

— Dennis Haysbert

everybody has a story to tell

— Joe Strummer

We are all captives of a story.

— Daniel Quinn

All we have is the story we tell.

— Jess Walter

I know that this story is true.

— Dan Rather

Your story is where you take it to, not where you start.

— Tony Robbins

We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

— David Droga

People love stories. They need stories.

— Caroline Leavitt

When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

— Bob Gibson

Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.

— Michael Douglas

You can’t hate someone whose story you know.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

— Harlan Howard

We drew our inspiration from everyday stories.

— Greg Hunt

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

— John D. Voelker

I don't think I've ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.

— Charisma Carpenter

There's no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we're happy; end of story.

— Simon Cowell

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

— Andrew Stanton

If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

— David Christian

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

— Anthony Burgess

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

Nothing is as important as a likable narrator. Nothing holds a story together better.

— Ethan Canin

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote…

— Annie Besant

We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested…

— Bill Williams

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always…

— Clarence Darrow

I've read in a couple stories that I was raised Episcopalian, but that's not true. I think that's just people assuming things.…

— Sufjan Stevens

It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it…

— Jon Hamm

Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of…

— Jeremy Collier

Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the…

— Daniel Kehlmann

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane,…

— Anonymous

Making music clips, I have a responsibility to depict the artist in a way that suits them, and feels comfortable with how…

— Adria Petty

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the…

— Gloria Estefan

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have…

— George Lucas

It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.…

— George Lucas

The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Lesson number one in trying to develop the ability of independent thought: Understand that EVERYTHING the government says has the potential to…

— Derek R. Audette

The story of Romulus and Remus being suckled by a wolf is not a meaningless fable. The founders of every State which…

— Henry David Thoreau

I guess the language that Justice Ginsburg used at the closing of the VMI (United States v. Virginia Military Institute) case is…

— Ted Olson