Stories Quotes · Page 113

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

— Joel Kinnaman

Find the simple story in the product, and present it in an articulate and intelligent, persuasive way.

— William Bernbach

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

— Ali Smith

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

— Chris Murphy

I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.

— Taron Egerton

“Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.”

— Joy Fielding

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

— E. M. Forster

Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.

— Deborah Needleman

We always knew that we wanted to keep Atlantis off for a while and when it did show up, to make it…

— Geoff Johns

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman…

— Anonymous

I've never been a snob. It [movie] is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and…

— Steven Soderbergh

Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see…

— Mary Hart

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention…

— Sue Grafton

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and…

— Tom Robbins

He pointed toward the silhouettes on the side of the [bathrooms] instead--black cutout man, black cutout woman. The man had his legs…

— Stephen King

It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

“Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in…

— David Wolpe

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well.…

— Ray Stevenson

Someone responding to the story said 'real spies do not speak like that'. Well, I am a spy and that is how…

— Edward Snowden

What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted…

— Liam Gillick

Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently.…

— Amanda Plummer

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation…

— John Lasseter

Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

— Nicole Kidman

No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic…

— J.H. Wyman

FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

— David Talbot

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

— Robert Crumb

What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.

— Diane Mott Davidson

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody…

— Iyanla Vanzant

You don't have to turn the page I read the story it ends with you and me.

— Anonymous

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write,…

— Alice Walker

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

— Natalie Portman

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

— David Levithan

Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

— Mary Lou Retton

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

— Scott Turow

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

— Anonymous

Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories.

— Karen Armstrong

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and…

— Jeff Grubb