Stories Quotes · Page 117

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

— Liya Kebede

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

— Scott McClanahan

“I had come to believe that there was something sacred in telling stories and telling them true.”

— Kirby Larson

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise…

— Orson Welles

If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with…

— Mourid Barghouti

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

— Sara Paretsky

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

— Dolly Parton

When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

— Flannery O'Connor

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it,…

— William Devane

The craft, the writing of a song, is about creating a story, a life story, a world within three minutes, but that's…

— PJ Harvey

We started writing the shows in order, and then very quickly had to jump to, "Oh, we got Tony Hale today and…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know…

— Famke Janssen

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories,…

— Kate Bernheimer

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and…

— Maeve Binchy

I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both…

— David Raiklen

“It is customary to have vampires in stories nowadays - they are quite the norm, just like wicked stepmothers used to be.…

— Jane De Suza

I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their…

— Ryan Adams

Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to…

— Vincent Laforet

I like movies that interest me and stories that interest me, I don't think about how much money it's gonna [cost] to…

— Alex Pettyfer

Everything in life is made up...You make up that you are happy. You make up that you are sad. You make up…

— Walter Dean Myers

I think it's really important, when you're redefining a character [ Spider-Man], for the audience to experience things that they haven't experienced,…

— Marc Webb

Whenever the circus would come to town, I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky clown domination stories involving the leather clown,…

— John S. Hall

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of…

— Jandy Nelson

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake…

— Haruki Murakami

Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.

— Melina Marchetta

I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

— Sue Monk Kidd

If you want to change society then you must tell an alternative story.

— Ivan Illich

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.

— Rebecca Goldstein

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

— Brian Swimme

I'm always drawn to the underdogs, to the people whose stories don't get told.

— Lauren Myracle

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

— Terence McKenna

The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked…

— ZZ Packer

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

— Adriana Trigiani

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

— Susan Fletcher

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives

— Thomas King

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

— Chris Martin

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

— Rob Bell

Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.

— Rachael Yamagata

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

— Alastair Campbell