Stories Quotes · Page 163

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

— Mabel Cheung

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

— Alice Hoffman

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

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

I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is…

— Jim Carrey

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You…

— Spike Lee

The harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just…

— Scott Walker

“The stories she'd read of others' lives over these last few months had left her with a greater appreciation for the thread…

— Masha Hamilton

Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell "my" sex change story but I've never appeared on his…

— Eileen Davidson

One of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text.…

— Rob Roberge

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my…

— Gabrielle Aplin

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's…

— Henning Mankell

The fact is Jerry Weintraub, the handsome, bearish movie producer, the man with the long career, who worked with Arthur Godfrey and…

— Rich Cohen

There are certainly stories that I used to tell myself as a kid that did influence 'The Cabinet of Wonders.' There's a…

— Marie Rutkoski

We underestimate teenagers at our peril. Even the dismissive thing out on the street--look at what they're wearing. Then we'll hear stories…

— Markus Zusak

One of the stories I love is how Gutenberg’s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden…

— Steven Johnson

I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it…

— Joss Stone

Every story is flawed, every story is subject to change. Even after it is set down to print, between covers of a…

— Michelle Richmond

Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a…

— John Seabrook

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— Jim Ross

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

— Micah Perks

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

— Judy Garland

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

— Sophie Nelisse

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

— Stephen Elliott

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

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Our stories always contain average, ordinary people. They are the most unsuspecting victims of all.”

— D.J. Weaver

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

— Bjorn Borg

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

— Rosamund Pike

Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.

— Lynne Truss

Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.

— Neil Jordan

If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie…

— Tamora Pierce

If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth

— Saadat Hasan Manto

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

— John Berger

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

— Rebecca Eaton