Stories Quotes · Page 150

Everything we see in a Catholic church is there for a single purpose: to tell a love story.

— Donald Wuerl

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

— Jack Horner

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

— John Dufresne

“Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

— John Boorman

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

— Jean Giraud

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

— Parker J. Palmer

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

— Alan Rickman

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid…

— Beverly Cleary

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with…

— Haruki Murakami

Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors…

— Cary Fukunaga

“I looked at the people playing, walking, loafing, hurrying, or sauntering across the little park in front of us. How many terrible…

— John Barnes

Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where…

— Annie Leonard

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make…

— David Lee Roth

Creation stories, so central in the religions of the Middle East, play a surprisingly marginal part in Greek myth. The Greeks had…

— Neil MacGregor

Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story.…

— Aurora Guerrero

I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm…

— Colin Firth

When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted…

— Carlos Cuaron

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

I can hope that this long sad story, this progression of priests and ministers and rabbis and ulamas and imams and bonzes…

— Steven Weinberg

A cowboy, a lawyer, and a mechanic watched Queen of the Damned,” I murmured. Warren—who had once, a long time ago, been…

— Patricia Briggs

Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than…

— Brian K. Vaughan

Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause?…

— Mary Oliver

Stories move in circle. They don’t move in straight lines. So it helps if you listen in circles. There are stories inside…

— Deena Metzger

Every time a story about me appears in a newspaper, I am injured professionally.

— Norman Mailer

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

— Keri Russell

I'm a professional. So before I published any novels, I'd always been writing stories.

— Jess Walter

I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.

— Martin Landau

The Story of My Life is drinking cups of tea, eating coco pops and playing Playstation.

— Louis Tomlinson

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not

— Mary-Kate Olsen

Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?

— Patrick Rothfuss

We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.

— Diane Setterfield

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

— Kim Edwards

The story you are about to read is a work of fiction. Nothing - and everything - about it is real.

— Todd Strasser

Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it.

— Sushan

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was…

— Chris Evert

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

— Chinua Achebe

The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.

— Aeriel Miranda

“I write about love all the time, what a tragedy those stories turn into.”

— Turcois Ominek