Stories Quotes · Page 119

I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

— Michelle Stuart

It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.

— Michael Haneke

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

— Thomas R. Insel

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

— Karen Thompson Walker

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

— Ralph Nader

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

— Jane Levy

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of…

— Juliana Hatfield

I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

— Haile Gerima

I think the more web video there is, the more press you'll get, as well as all the people who want to…

— Felicia Day

The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually…

— Pema Chodron

Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it's become a distraction from the story, which still entirely…

— Jonathan Karl

For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly…

— John Wilmot

Wes [Anderson] is brilliant, kind, and just absolutely fantastic. He was really amazing in the way he can just take ideas, turn…

— Kara Hayward

That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group…

— John Landgraf

Who you are, where you've been and what you've done is all up here, captured and preserved in your memories. If you…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It…

— Marcia Clark

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in…

— William James

“I was asked: You write some intimate scenes in your stories on You Me & Stories but they are not explicit. Why…

— Arti Honrao

I wish I had time to do more reading, but I just haven't had much time. But I still find time for…

— Youth Lagoon

Music is, by far, the best art. Nothing even comes close. It's so immediate and emotional. In writing, maybe ninety percent of…

— T.C. Boyle

On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but…

— David Bazan

I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not…

— Lucy Walker

When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing…

— Alberto Villoldo

I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don't like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about…

— Judi Dench

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

— Jeff Britting

Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.

— Joe R. Lansdale

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today.

— R. A. Lafferty

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

— Steve Saint

Too many times, people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobody's heard the story from the basement.

— Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I do enjoy wearing a little heel when I'm at work, but when I'm running around with my son, it's a different…

— Miranda Kerr

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

— Esther Freud

Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice.

— Howard Nemerov

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

— Paula Rego

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too…

— Anita Desai

And if you have five seconds to spare, I'll tell you the story of my life".

— Anonymous

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

— Howard Gordon

“This book is a story, and like all stories, it should be taken with a grain of salt.”

— Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

When you change your NOW story, you instantly change your past story and your future story.

— Robert G. Allen