Stories Quotes · Page 151

I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of…

— Andy Serkis

In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.

— Gary D. Schmidt

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

— Hark-Joon Lee

Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.

— Angelique Kidjo

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

— George R. R. Martin

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

— V. S. Naipaul

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

— Sean Taylor

There's some central relationship in every movie, and that's what stories are.

— Christopher Miller

“The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important.…

— Shannon L. Alder

Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I…

— Vivienne Westwood

You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your…

— Anne Lamott

I've had a wonderful career and I'm very happy to have had all of the opportunities that I've had to tell stories…

— Angelina Jolie

I got a certain type of respect in the streets, that's why they call me Tha Truth. And I gotta speak the…

— Trae tha Truth

Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can…

— Manohla Dargis

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later...' I like things where…

— Joss Whedon

It is our stories [classic Disney films] that make us human - so Owen [Suskind] has become an expert in what connects…

— Roger Ross Williams

Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back…

— Charles Kingsley

I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second…

— Steven Spielberg

I feel like, if I'm being honest with myself, my biggest skill set is as a writer 'cause I can do that…

— Mark Duplass

The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the…

— Alice Lowe

“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite…

— Ray Bradbury

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And…

— Charles de Lint

I never think of an entire book at once. I always just start with a very small idea. In 'Holes,' I just…

— Louis Sachar

The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.

— Craig Groeschel

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or…

— Khaled Hosseini

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon…

— Erin Morgenstern

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

— O. Henry

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.

— Jill Abramson

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

— Grant Heslov

“She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.”

— Jennifer McMahon

I know how easy it is to be swept away by stories, by things you wish were real.

— Derek Landy

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

— Angela Bassett

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd…

— Leanne Pooley

I like the fact that second person puts the reader in the story. It makes them, whether they like it or not,…

— Rob Roberge

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

— Phil Keoghan

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

— Leo Tolstoy

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a…

— Antony Beevor

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody…

— Kendrick Lamar