Stories Quotes · Page 115

“Stories aren't always told on paper, sometimes they are imprinted on the skin...forever..”

— Zoey Sweete

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

— Seth

If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.

— Robert T. Bakker

My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero.

— Benjamin Netanyahu

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that…

— Joshuah Bearman

We are wearing coats of trust. When one tells a story this is what happens.

— Terry Tempest Williams

A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I get a lot of inspiration from research in mythology and folklore. I find that, you know, stories people told each other…

— Cassandra Clare

So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

But as long as you remember what you have seen, then nothing is gone. As long as you remember, it is part…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of…

— Jane Heller

I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which…

— Alexander Weinstein

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will…

— Harvey Fierstein

I met Laura Morton through a friend who had hired her to help her write her own story. Though Laura is chock-full…

— Randi Zuckerberg

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working.…

— Robert Osborne

I know when I watch a film at this point, if I completely lose myself in the characters and the story and…

— Gabriel Mann

The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual…

— Paul Bloom

It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take…

— Michelle Monaghan

We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can…

— Barack Obama

We are shaped by stories from the first moments of life, and even before. Stories tell us who we are, why we…

— Daniel Taylor

My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew…

— Bruce Feiler

We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of…

— John Legend

But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must…

— W. Somerset Maugham

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,

— Alice Munro

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

— Brad Meltzer

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

— Dane Cook

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

— Peter Hedges

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

— Julianna Margulies

Even films without music are inspiring, as I think a good story is full of changes, different paces, and ideas.

— Volker Bertelmann

I'm proud of everybody in our organization. Not every story has a happy ending. Doesn't mean it's a bad story.

— David Blatt

Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

— Marco Tempest

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.

— Jean M. Auel

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't…

— Adam Johnson

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

— Donald Miller

Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in…

— Jane Kirkpatrick

Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millenia away.

— Daniel Taylor

I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.

— Song Kang-Ho

I pride myself on being available to as many people's stories as I possibly can.

— George C. Wolfe

People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read.

— Amy Poehler