Stories Quotes · Page 121

Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.

— Violante Placido

In order to tap into the power of dreaming, we must connect not only to the human story, but to all of…

— Alberto Villoldo

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Soul Mountain, the story of one man’s quest for inner peace and freedom.

— Gao Xingjian

From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.

— Hayley Atwell

Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.

— Michael Ondaatje

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

— Wally Lamb

I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.

— Keri Russell

I'm not a writer because I want to make money. I'm a writer because I'm a very slow thinker, but I do…

— Gregory Maguire

Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but…

— Isabel Allende

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose…

— James Cameron

Paul Beatty for "The Sellout" sounds like a relevant story for our times. It's playful, uses deep thought and seems to be…

— Sjon

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

— Abe Fortas

Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that…

— Ed Gordon

Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in…

— Jenny McCarthy

There's fierce competition between all the networks to get the guest who can bring the most pertinent information about whatever the story…

— Bob Schieffer

The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh…

— Matt de la Pena

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to…

— Ernest Hemingway

“We hold these stories and mad idea and events in our head and they run around and around telling us we are…

— Maureen Muldoon

The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient…

— William Kurelek

If the ad is bad people get turned off. That's 125 million potential viewers, so you just killed reach. But there's also…

— Charlene Li

I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded…

— Louis Auchincloss

I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re…

— Miles Teller

It's really nice to see that, looking at all sides of the abortion issue - from the person who doesn't want to…

— Lizz Winstead

'Legend of the Seeker' - it has new and interesting creatures and magic, but it's the stories.

— Craig Horner

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

— David Corbett

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground…

— Alan Chadwick

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

— Christopher Hitchens

The story of the fifth century was one of the exploitation of imperial weakness. Thus the Western Empire died.

— Adrian Goldsworthy

Typically, the performance has a story - a beginning, the crescendo and the end.

— Marina Abramovic

Other people don't know what you've gone through. And everybody has a story that you probably don't know.

— Travis Pastrana

A woman who loves books has a dreamer's soul, with each story she has read woven into her own.

— Alyson Richman

“I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.”

— Sara Sheridan

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the…

— David Cameron

Stories have a unique power, David. The Inuit believe they can capture souls.

— Chris d'Lacey

To me, writing is fun. It doesn't matter what you're writing, as long as you can tell a story.

— Stan Lee

I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably…

— Lynn Abbey

My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.

— Barry Hannah

“It's stories that inspire people to change. It's stories that make them believe things can be better.”

— Sebastien de Castell

I like works about familiar stories, where one spins the point of view and looks at it from another angle.

— Stephen Schwartz