Stories Quotes · Page 166

I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.

— Amy Hempel

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

— Travis Tritt

All the stars will tell the story, of our love and all its glory. Let us make this night of magic, and…

— Elvis Presley

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American…

— Michelle Obama

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

— Anonymous

In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.

— Haruki Murakami

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

— Oren Lyons

If there's ever a character who can only serve one metaphor, I'll probably tell one story with that character and be done…

— Kurt Busiek

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom…

— Eve Ensler

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for…

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it,…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where…

— Luke Wilson

I didn't want to travel. I didn't want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having…

— Kim Weston

A lot of times, people complain about how books and stories change when they're translated to the screen. But I think sometimes…

— Brian Selznick

Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into…

— Megan Fox

I do think that there are gray lines of morality in a newsroom, when it comes to some stories. The best-intentioned journalist…

— Jim Lynch

With the adult ones, I feel I need to get as deep inside the psychology of a character as I can, and…

— John Boyne

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the…

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr

I don't have too many plans filled out. I know I want to keep doing more music. I've got a couple of…

— Jeff Bridges

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the…

— Scott Westerfeld

It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria…

— Paul Krugman

I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived…

— Sylvia Plath

When I went to the University of Iowa in order to be a writer, I thought, This is the worst way to…

— Joe Frank

The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”

— Steve Aylett

“Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.”

— Shannon Alder

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll…

— Mary Oliver

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

— Dexter Fletcher

It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

— Patrick Ness

Where do storytellers find the wisdom to discover their own stories? From no place more mysterious than their own hearts.

— Marion Dane Bauer

One of my favourite messages about 'The Pirate Fairy' is that the story is about appreciating your own talents.

— Christina Hendricks

“Stories create stories, create stories, create stories, or nothing gets done.”

— Bill Willingham

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

— John Mulaney

Actors tell stories and we play different characters, and not all of them are healthy.

— Andrea Roth

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

— Christopher Nolan

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

— Claude Lelouch

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

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

— Phil Keoghan

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

— Rob Roberge