Stories Quotes · Page 172

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat…

— Peter Benchley

“Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.”

— Leila Howland

“Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Money comes, money goes. But your story stays with you the rest of your life.

— Andy Stanley

I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

— Vanessa Hudgens

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

— Kim Smith

When you make music, you're in really direct contact with your fans out there, so you hear all kinds of stories.

— Jared Leto

I love stories and behaviors. And everyone has a story to tell, big or small, always fascinating.

— Anonymous

I wanted to make a more Romanesque film that told a story over a long period of time - this one spans…

— Christophe Honore

Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last…

— Cameron Dokey

I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are…

— Robert Jordan

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure…

— Vaughn Monroe

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting,…

— Lamar Alexander

“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is…

— Shannon L. Alder

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie…

— Samuel Richardson

Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We…

— Jen Hatmaker

When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that…

— Anton Chekhov

You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company…

— Woody Guthrie

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught…

— Graham Greene

Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is…

— Deb Caletti

I do think there is great strength, though, in starting a sermon with a story, then returning to that story at the…

— Max Lucado

Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling…

— Jo Nesbo

When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have…

— Kate DiCamillo

I'm happy to be part of this chorus of people who are trying to tell more complex stories about Haiti.

— Edwidge Danticat

“Psychologically, our reality derives from the stories we tell ourselves, at least the ones we believe.”

— Matthew D. Lieberman

I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.

— Emma Bell

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

— Rainbow Rowell

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

— Michael Shermer

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

— Christopher Meloni

I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and…

— Janet Evanovich

Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.

— Erwin Knoll

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.

— John Lewis

God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry.

— Philip Yancey

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

— Anonymous

“A trap, like a good story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them until the prey is snared.”

— E.J. Patten

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

— Mary J. Blige

“They had been dreams borrowed from stories, dreams she had clung to because she had yet to imagine her own dreams.”

— Stephanie Garber

That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other…

— Gabriel Iglesias

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”

— Sanhita Baruah