Stories Quotes · Page 159

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

— Sherman Alexie

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

— Carolyn Maloney

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

— Allen Sapp

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

— Alexandra Adornetto

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

— Jill Tarter

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

— Shane Koyczan

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

— Felix Riesenberg

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

— Clifford D. Simak

I need to say to you. There are things in your life that only you will see, stories that only you will…

— Emmet Gowin

I'm drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it's the story that's going to stay…

— Ryan Kwanten

If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from…

— Claudio Simonetti

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe…

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I…

— Mark Zuckerberg

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of…

— Carine Roitfeld

Fall down. Make a mess. Break something occasionally. Know that your mistakes are your own unique way of getting to where you…

— Conan O'Brien

I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one…

— Charlie Sheen

Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie…

— Howard Gordon

I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives…

— Michael Jackson

The only place where you can really surprise or shock the reader, or make someone laugh, is on the lower righthand corner…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses…

— A. S. Byatt

You just want to find a story that grabs you and that you've never seen before, but somehow you can't imagine it…

— Harry Treadaway

August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life,…

— Liv Ullmann

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird…

— Anna Quindlen

I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away.

— Sheila Nevins

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free…

— Andy Stanley

You know, people make up a lot of different stories about a lot of different things.

— Ray J

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

— Peter Orner

Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told.

— Michael J. Jackson

“But what all these responses have in common is that they point to the decisive power of information and stories [...]”

— Wes Moore

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

— Etgar Keret

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same…

— Saoirse Ronan

I love story songs. It's just, for me, they're harder to write, and sometimes they sound too intended or something.

— Conor Oberst

Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.

— David Burge

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

— Mia Couto

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

— Elmore Leonard

NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous…

— Ann Coulter

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

— Nancy Thayer

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and…

— Gus Van Sant

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

— Linda Vester