Stories Quotes · Page 111

“One may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell of others.”

— Timothy Zahn

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

— Sasha Alexander

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

— Dorothy Allison

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

— Hedi Slimane

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

— Oscar Levant

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

— Jeanette Winterson

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

— Stephen King

Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not…

— Jens Lekman

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences,…

— Mick Farren

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a…

— Charlie Chaplin

For me,the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out-the writing down of it…

— Michael Morpurgo

“A good story invites us into someone else's world where we learn, discover commonalities, and leave with compassion and understanding.”

— Lynda Cheldelin Fell

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and…

— Maggie Stiefvater

That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence…

— Daniel Clowes

The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

Things are going to happen whether you are there or not, you still need someone to push the button on the camera…

— Neil Berkeley

Almost every cartoonist, when he's sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl…

— Al Jaffee

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees…

— Elisha Gray

I've known Carolyn [Maloney] for years, by the way. I knew her when she was on the City Council and knew her…

— Eleanor Smeal

Whether the type of old sea captain that I have portrayed in my stories is gone forever, is a question. Certainly each…

— Joseph C. Lincoln

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and…

— Peter Guber

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the…

— Jim Harrison

I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us,…

— Laurence Sterne

There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place…

— Stephen Kendrick

The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling.

— Francesca Gregorini

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

— Jeanette Winterson

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

— Charlie Rowe

A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.

— Des MacHale

“Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.”

— Nadège Richards

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

— Angie Sage

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like…

— Elena Anaya

The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

— Dorothy Parker

“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it”

— Jean Paul Sartre

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

— Sofia Coppola

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

— Kevin Spacey

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

— John Patrick Shanley

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The story of a man's soul, however trivial, can be more interesting and instructive than the story of a whole nation”

— Mikhail Lermontov

“People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.”

— Amit Kalantri

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

— Om Puri