Stories Quotes · Page 175

You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it.

— Ray Bradbury

stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

— Dorothy Allison

I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

— Hedi Slimane

I'm going to tell stories to the world. I think there's time for me to grow. We'll see.

— Sasha Alexander

I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

— Oscar Levant

The more personal you get, the more universal a story you end up telling.

— Francesca Gregorini

Once I release a song, it's not just about me or the people... I write about. They're my stories, but they're not…

— Jens Lekman

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

— Stephen King

Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one…

— Ken Follett

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that…

— Jim Jarmusch

One of the main reasons is that most Sunday school curricula only teaches disconnected Bible stories. They don't teach how we know…

— Ken Ham

The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding…

— Megan Chance

Stories. They're everywhere...You never know where they start and you certainly don't know where they'll end. If they ever DO end. (Nevermore)

— Linda Newberry

Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is…

— Karrine Steffans

Being in the public eye, I have certainly gone through the tabloid situation where they come out with stories that are not…

— Cheryl Tiegs

Like a child, the earth's going to sleep, or so the story goes. But I'm not tired, it says. And the mother…

— Louise Glück

Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him…

— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.…

— John Lithgow

Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin…

— Pat Conroy

“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning…

— Beryl Markham

What I try to do is write from the inside out. I really try to jump into the world of the film…

— Christopher Nolan

Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical…

— J. Robert Spencer

“If you are having private thoughts and ask an intimate friend to listen to them in privacy or on a date will…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

As Democratic losses mounted in Senate races across the country on election night, some liberal commentators clung to the idea that dissatisfied…

— Byron York

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

— Jeanette Winterson

A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.

— Des MacHale

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently.

— Jeanette Winterson

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

— Charlie Rowe

The affair between Margot Asquinth and Margot Asquinth will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature.

— Dorothy Parker

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like…

— Elena Anaya

“Don't judge me by my books. They're not my voices, and they were never my stories to tell.”

— Nadège Richards

I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.

— Angie Sage

I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.

— Kevin Spacey

Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.

— John Patrick Shanley

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

— Sofia Coppola

“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it”

— Jean Paul Sartre

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

— Om Puri

I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

— Amy Schumer

“People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales.”

— Amit Kalantri