Stories Quotes · Page 116

'Amores Perros' is three stories that interconnect in one moment, which is the car accident.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

— Rob Corddry

I am not a qualified historian, but rather a teller of stories from history.

— Princess Michael of Kent

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

— Mitch McConnell

The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

— Tony Robbins

I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can…

— Peter Hedges

No one is waiting for me. In this story, I'm the girl no one is waiting for.

— Jennifer Egan

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

— Alexandra Daddario

I'm a storyteller, and there's some genres I like. I don't think I'm ever going to do science fiction, but I want…

— Spike Lee

I am optimistic. I think that there are a lot of women producing things, not necessarily in the studios. Actresses are putting…

— Susan Sarandon

Most games follow a real railroad plot, no matter what you want, you're following their storyline to its unavoidable conclusion. I'd like…

— Patrick Rothfuss

If you open the door and realize things like the fact that Batman is occupying the same narrative space that Robin Hood…

— Patrick Rothfuss

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life…

— Nadine Gordimer

For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry…

— Mother Teresa

Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never…

— Sarah Dessen

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the…

— Tabitha Soren

The wish to be super-strong is a healthy wish, a vital, compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build…

— William Moulton Marston

but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that…

— Brené Brown

I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why…

— Jeff Olson

I'm not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods…

— Al Jourgensen

Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors,…

— William Kent Krueger

“I said that I have finished telling my story, not that the story is finished. I said before that no story is…

— Herbert Rosendorfer

The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more…

— Anonymous

WARNING If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment

— James Patterson

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets…

— Peter Weir

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

— Jesmyn Ward

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The trick to finding ideas is to convince yourself that everyone and everything has a story.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“There are stories you’ll learn if you’re strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.”

— Cheryl Strayed

“The best historical stories capture the modern imagination because they are, in many senses, still current - part of a continuum.”

— Sara Sheridan

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Timothy Zahn

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.

— Eva Green

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

— Floyd Cooper