Stories Quotes · Page 134

My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

— Jordin Sparks

I tell stories. Because I believe you can do things that joke tellers can't do, and that is, bring your audience along.

— Bill Cosby

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

— Bret Anthony Johnston

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

— Justin Simien

“The most beautiful stories ever told are the most difficult to take”

— Kristen Ashley

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none…

— Joseph O'Connor

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

— Clara Hughes

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

— Adriana Trigiani

I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories the way I tell them, not the way anybody else tells them.…

— Carmen Boullosa

Concrete examples of successful women and their stories of achievement are the best inspiration and [means of] empowerment for other women to…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For…

— Cory Trepanier

We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of…

— William E. Rees

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques,…

— Frederick Lenz

In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no…

— Neil Gaiman

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create…

— Pete Townshend

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. The more fantastical characters, or fantastical worlds that they inhabit are really…

— Michael Sheen

Lore is my favorite kind of story. Because it's not only historical, it's a lie everyone knows is a lie but tells…

— Anonymous

Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let…

— Virginia Woolf

“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical…

— Benjamin Franklin

It's so weird to say this about the icon and legend that is Cher, but she's like an old girlfriend. We still…

— Christina Aguilera

I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned…

— J. K. Rowling

I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they…

— John Boyne

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music,…

— Bob Mould

I tell my story, not because its unique, but because its not, it is the story of many girls

— Malala Yousafzai

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

— Alice Hoffman

I'm a hopeless romantic. I consider myself a realistic person who usually finds stories from real life people.

— Mabel Cheung

I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in…

— Isaac Marion

I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that…

— Peter Hedges

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

— Linda Ronstadt

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on…

— Alan King

I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.

— Chad Lowe

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

— Judy Garland

I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

— Micah Perks

Cena, love him or not, connects with the ticket buying public better than any one in the biz. End of story.

— Jim Ross

TV is our window on the world. It's a powerful medium for great stories that become part of our very, very personal…

— Nancy Dubuc

History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.

— Christina Baldwin

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

— Stephen Elliott

There are many animation films out there for teens, tweens and family but there are not that many real life stories.

— Sophie Nelisse

If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I once told a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked…

— Bob Odenkirk