Stories Quotes · Page 155

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

— Marco Tempest

There is no absolute beginning to any story, after all. There is only the moment you begin watching.

— William Landay

Ultimately ... it's not the stories that determine our choices, but the stories that we continue to choose.

— Sylvia Boorstein

Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning…

— Dana Gould

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

— Mike Berenstain

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am…

— Charles Dickens

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in…

— Chuck Wendig

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

— Anonymous

You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that…

— Lorin Stein

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene…

— Alan Cumming

I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's…

— M. Night Shyamalan

You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of…

— Jill Abramson

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling…

— Joseph Kosinski

Obviously, everybody's favorite form of web content is more story with principal actors. But the economics of the web do not yet…

— Matt Nix

There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as…

— Thomas Paine

The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that…

— S.M. Stirling

Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple…

— George Jones

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak…

— Christopher Meledandri

“So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be…

— Northrop Frye

I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best…

— Christopher Isherwood

My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible…

— Steven Spielberg

Well, let’s start with the maxim that the best writing is understated, meaning it’s not full of flourishes and semaphores and tap…

— Gene Weingarten

It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind.…

— Anonymous

I had a story-telling mother; she's written novels and short stories. So I feel like maybe I'm staying alive by telling tales.

— Ayshay

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is…

— Drew Goddard

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and…

— Juliet Stevenson

“...but there are stories that cannot begin at their beginning, and perhaps this is one of them.”

— Félix J. Palma

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

— Paul Bettany

I felt that if others can overcome incredible challenges to be in shape, why would my story be any different?

— Maria Kang

I don't go to see movies to see plots. I'm not interested in puzzles like an Agatha Christie story.

— Ti West

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in…

— David Levithan

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

— Harrison Ford

It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

— Seth Godin

I don't think it takes a brain surgeon to understand how to read a story.

— Uma Thurman

People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories.

— Jonathan Nolan

I also want to do stories that I think are not brought to television that often that our community talks about.

— Ed Gordon

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about…

— Diane Setterfield

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

— Eve Bunting