Stories Quotes · Page 112

I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

— Amy Schumer

The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness.

— Pope Francis

Suddenly, details seemed extremely important. Details were something to grab on to, a way to insert myself into the story.

— Mitch Albom

There's always a story in music, and it's expressed through my music.

— Ledisi

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

— Peter Carey

“There are a lot of sad stories. It seems like everybody has one to tell.”

— Edward Bloor

Somebody's little girl- how easy it is to make a sob story over who she once was and who she now is.

— Carl Sandburg

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

— David Alan Basche

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people…

— Chris Pine

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a…

— Melissa Rosenberg

Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed…

— Tom Bodett

When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted…

— Junot Diaz

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and…

— Richard Simmons

The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although…

— Alex Kendrick

“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

— Anthony Doerr

“There were many words piled up inside my chest, stories waiting to be told. I wanted to hand all this knowledge to…

— Elif Shafak

To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic…

— Bernard Lewis

Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song has been…

— Don McLean

I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have…

— Rex Stout

OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals…

— Paulo Coelho

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because…

— Madeleine L'Engle

There are massive stacks of bad choices in my backyard. Haven't finished cleaning the place up but I'm workin' on it and…

— Buddy Wakefield

These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students…

— Renee Watson

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front…

— Mike Gorman

The biggest thing is to let your voice be heard, let your story be heard.

— Dwyane Wade

However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid.

— Vera Nazarian

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

— Alice Fulton

“Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to”

— James Patterson

They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.

— Michael McKean

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

— Katy Perry

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows…

— John Eldredge

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

— Murasaki Shikibu

Whenever an actor was going to die, I tried to help them understand not to take it personally. It wasn't about them.…

— Wendell Pierce

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

— Richard Matheson

I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track…

— Michael Hastings

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

— Mark Strand

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them

— Marilyn vos Savant

You can't regret a whole period in your life. . . . It's part of who you are, one of your stories.

— Laura Fraser

The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on…

— Marisa Silver